Universal #1301

Legacy number: 1301

 Number  1297
 Original  For the languages with both the passive and resultative, the following implication could be suggested: if an agentive object is forbidden in the passive it is also forbidden in the resultative. The reverse is not necesarily true.
 Standardized  IF an agentive object is forbidden in the passive, THEN it is also forbidden in the resultative.
 Formula 
 Keywords  diathesis, resultative, passive, agentive object
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages surveyed in Nedjalkov (ed.) 1983, Nedjalkov (ed.) 1988
 Source  Nedjalkov & Jaxontov 1983: 35, Nedjalkov & Jaxontov 1988: 52

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Discussion
Notes
An AGENTIVE OBJECT is the constituent of surface structure which encodes (or can encode) the referent of the subject of the corresponding active construction, whatever its underlying role; cf. German:a. Ich kann Ihnen ein Buch darüber geben, es ist von einem Arzt verfaßt . /es ist von einem Arzt verfaßt worden. ‘I can give you a book about this, it is written (Present, Resultative) / it has been written (Perfect, Passive) by a physician.’b. Dieses Buch hat ein Arzt verfaßt. ‘A physician has written this book.’
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
An AGENTIVE OBJECT is the constituent of surface structure which encodes (or can encode) the referent of the subject of the corresponding active construction, whatever its underlying role; cf. German:

a. Ich kann Ihnen ein Buch darüber geben, es ist von einem Arzt verfaβt.
/es ist von einem Arzt verfaβt worden.
'I can give you a book about this, it is written (Present, Resultative) /
it has been written (Perfect, Passive) by a physician.'

b. Dieses Buch hat ein Arzt verfaβt.
'A physician has written this book.'