Universal #303
Legacy number: 303
| Number | 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 |
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