Universal #903
Legacy number: 903
| Number | 900 |
| Original | The antipassive is correlative with the imperfective aspect and low-level object individuation. Whenever antipassive constructions are in opposition with active constructions, the former will be found with the imperfective aspect and low-level object individuation and the latter with perfective aspect and highly individuated objects. |
| Standardized | The antipassive is correlative with the imperfective aspect and low-level object individuation. Whenever antipassive constructions are in opposition with active constructions, the former will be found with the imperfective aspect and low-level object individuation and the latter with perfective aspect and highly individuated objects. |
| Formula | antipassive ⇔ imperfective aspect & low-level object individuation |
| Keywords | antipassive, imperfective, aspect, object |
| Domain | inflection, syntax |
| Type | no genuine implication; rather: provided that |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute? |
| Basis | languages surveyed in Lazard 1986a, Lazard 1998 |
| Source | Lazard 1986a: 46, Lazard 1998: 230-1 |
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