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Universal 306:
- Original
- In the majority of languages verbal forms of the passive voice morphologically are not more complex than forms of the active voice.
- Standardized
- Passive verbal forms tend not to be morphologically more complex than corresponding active forms.
- Keywords
- diathesis, active, passive, complexity
- Domain
- inflection
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
- Source
- Kozinsky 1981
- Counterexamples
- Dyirbal (Pama-Nyungan, Australian), some Austronesian languages (Kozinsky 1981)
Is there a mistake in the translation? With the “not” omitted, it should be about right.