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Universal 302:

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Universal 302:

Original
In the majority of languages the nominal and pronominal subject in the passive voice has the same grammatical patterning as the subject of the intransitive verb of state and of the nominal predicate.
Standardized
Subjects in passive constructions tend to be encoded and to behave like subjects of basic intransitive constructions.
Keywords
subject, diathesis, voice, passive, transitivity
Domain
inflection, syntax
Type
unconditional
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
Source
Kozinsky 1981
Counterexamples

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    1. May 2020

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