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Universal 1577:
- Original
- If there is a reflexive verb meaning ‘to laugh’ it is usually not derived from the transitive base meaning ‘to make somebody laugh’.
- Standardized
- IF there is a reflexive verb meaning ‘to laugh’, THEN it is usually not derived from the transitive base meaning ‘to make somebody laugh’.
- Keywords
- reflexive, causative
- Domain
- morphology, syntax, semantics
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- languages surveyed in Nedjalkov 1980
- Source
- Nedjalkov 1980: 227
- Counterexamples
- Macedonian (South-East Slavic, Indo-European)
