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Universal 1638:
- Original
- It is characteristic for reflexive markers to develop into decausative markers cross-linguistically, and there is no evidence of the reverse process.
- Standardized
- Reflexive markers tend to develop into decausative markers, but not the other way round.
- Keywords
- reflexive marker, decausative
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- target < source
- Status
- diachronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- over 50 Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages
- Source
- Geniusiene 1987: 324
- Counterexamples
