Universal #306
Legacy number: 306
| Number | 305 |
| Original | If a language has passive voice forms derived from intransitive verbs, it has passive voice derived from transitive verbs as well. |
| Standardized | IF there is a passive of intransitive verbs, THEN there is a passive of transitive verbs as well. |
| Formula | passives of INTR ⇒ passives of TR |
| Keywords | diathesis, passive, transitivity |
| Domain | inflection, syntax |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute? |
| Basis | languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981 |
| Source | Kozinsky 1981, Keenan 1985a: 249, and many others |
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