Universal #308

Legacy number: 308

 Number  307
 Original  If active and passive voices differ in verb form, then the corresponding constructions differ from each other in form of at least one of the nominal actants.
 Standardized  IF active and passive voices differ in verb form, THEN the corresponding constructions differ from each other in form of at least one of the nominal actants.
 Keywords  diathesis, passive, active, verb
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
 Source  Kozinsky 1981

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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
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