a strategy used in the stative complex predicate construction in which the manner (more generally, stative) component recruits a nonprototypical predication construction that employs a copula, and in addition the copula is in a deranked form. Example: in Malayalam aval bhamgiy-aayi prasamgiccu 'She spoke beautifully', bhamgiy 'beauty' is suffixed with a deranked form of the copula -aayi. (Section 14.2)