Universal #76
Legacy number: 76
| Number | 76 |
| Original | Only languages in which promotion to subject via passivization results in verb coding the semantic case of the promoted non-agent exhibit the subject-only constraint on relativization. |
| Standardized | IF relativization is restricted to subjects, THEN the semantic case of the non-agent promoted to subject in passivization is coded on the verb. |
| Keywords | diathesis, relativization, passivization, subject, verb-marking |
| Domain | inflection, syntax |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | languages in Givón 1975 |
| Source | Givón 1975: 71,120 |
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