1. May 2020 FP One Comment Universal 1139: verb morpheme (reflexive & passive use) ⇒ verb morpheme (anticausative use) Posted in Universals Archive Universal 1139: verb morpheme (reflexive & passive use) ⇒ verb morpheme (anticausative use) Original If a verbal morpheme has both the reflexive and the passive use, then it will also have the anticausative use. Standardized IF a verbal morpheme has both reflexive and passive use, THEN it will also have the anticausative use. Keywords morpheme, reflexive, passive, anticausative Domain inflection, syntax Type implication Status achronic but presumably diachronically motivated Quality absolute Basis languages mentioned in Haspelmath 1987 Source Haspelmath 1987: 30, cited in Haspelmath 1990: 35 Counterexamples Slave (Athabaskan), Rukai (Tsouic, Formosan), Tuareg (Berber, Afro-Asiatic), Worora (Wororan, Australian) (Haspelmath 1990: 35) Previous Post nonesuch 13 Next Post nonesuch 1 FP View more posts One Comment FP This reflexive-anticausative-passive implication finds its explanation in the grammaticization of NP-reflexives that are first extended to the anticausative use and only in the second step to the passive use (Haspelmath 1990: 42ff). 1. May 2020 Comments are closed.
FP This reflexive-anticausative-passive implication finds its explanation in the grammaticization of NP-reflexives that are first extended to the anticausative use and only in the second step to the passive use (Haspelmath 1990: 42ff). 1. May 2020
This reflexive-anticausative-passive implication finds its explanation in the grammaticization of NP-reflexives that are first extended to the anticausative use and only in the second step to the passive use (Haspelmath 1990: 42ff).