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Universal 227:
- Original
- If a language has only affixes which derive causatives form intransitive verbs, it is unlikely that these affixes will have a permissive meaning.
- Standardized
- If there are only affixes which derive causatives form intransitive verbs, THEN these affixes will not have a permissive meaning.
- Keywords
- causative, transitivity, permissive
- Domain
- morphology, semantics
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute?
- Basis
- languages surveyed in Xolodovic 1969, languages mentioned in Nedjalkov & Sil’nickij 1969, Nedjalkov & Sil’nickij 1973
- Source
- Nedjalkov & Sil’nickij 1969: 32, 1973: 14
- Counterexamples
What does “only” mean? Only causatives from intransitives and no decausatives from transitives?