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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