Universal #1300

Legacy number: 1300

 Number  1296
 Original  In languages where both resultatives proper and derived statives have the same form, the probability for a resultative to have stative meaning increases from right to left:

unobservable > irreversible observable > monovalent reversible > bivalent locational
 Standardized  In languages where both resultatives proper and derived statives have the same form, the probability for a resultative to have stative meaning increases from right to left:

unobservable > irreversible observable > monovalent reversible > bivalent locational
 Formula  unobservable > irreversible observable > monovalent reversible > bivalent locational
 Keywords  diathesis, resultative
 Domain  syntax, semantics
 Type  implicational hierarchy
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages surveyed in Nedjalkov (ed.) 1983, Nedjalkov (ed.) 1988
 Source  Kozinsky 1988: 505

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Discussion
Notes
1. Cf. #1299.2. The resultative form expresses the resultative meaning proper if it denotes a state that is the result of a previous event. The meaning of the derived stative is ‘the state as such with no reference to its origins’, or, one might say, a primary natural state. Cf. Russian:(1) Resultative:Na stene visit kartina [on wall hangs picture] ‘There hangs a picture on the wall’ -> Na stene poveshena kartina [on wall hung-PastPart-Pass picture] ‘A picture is hung on the wall’(2) Stative:Na vetkax visjat jabloki [on branches hang apples] ‘There are apples hanging on branches’ -> * Na vetkax povesheny jabloki
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1299"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">

2. The resultative form expresses the resultative meaning proper if it denotes a state that is the result of a previous event. The meaning of the derived stative is "the state as such with no reference to its origins", or, one might say, a primary natural state. Cf. Russian:
(1) Resultative:
Na stene visit kartina [on wall hangs picture] 'There hangs a picture on the wall'
→ Na stene poveshena kartina [on wall hung-PastPart-Pass picture] 'A picture is hung on the wall'
(2) Stative:
Na vetkax visjat jabloki [on branches hang apples] 'There are apples hanging on branches'
→ * Na vetkax povesheny jabloki