Universal #309

Legacy number: 309

 Number  308
 Original  If active and passive voices differ from each other in nominal actants form, they differ in verb form as well.
 Standardized  IF active and passive voices differ from each other in the form of nominal actants, THEN they differ in verb form as well.
 Keywords  diathesis, active, passive, verb
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
 Source  Kozinsky 1981

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Discussion
Counterexamples
Old Chinese, Saam (both Sino-Tibetan)(Kozinsky 1981)
Notes
Cf. #308. So the implication is supposed to be mutual.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=308"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> So the implication is supposed to be mutual.