Universal #1576

Legacy number: 1576

 Number  1572
 Original  If there are reciprocal and antipassive reflexive verb and if there is any overlapping between any groups of reflexive verb, there is a more massive overlapping between the reciprocals and antipassives than between either of these groups and any other, e.g. true reflexives.
 Standardized  IF there are reciprocal and antipassive reflexive verbs and IF there is any overlapping between any groups of reflexive verbs, THEN there is a more massive overlapping between the reciprocals and antipassives than between either of these groups and any others, e.g. true reflexives.
 Keywords  reflexive, verb, reciprocal, antipassive
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages surveyed in Nedjalkov 1980
 Source  Nedjalkov 1980: 226

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Cf. Russian and Lithuanian.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Cf. Russian and Lithuanian.