Universal 599:
- Original
- In all languages where causative verbs take complement noun phrases that have an accusative case-marker, the range of noun phrases that occur in this construction will include intransitive subjects, if the sentence describing the caused event is intransitive, and objects, if the sentence describing the caused event is transitive.
- Standardized
- IF the sentence describing the caused event is intransitive, THEN the range of noun phrases that occur in this construction will include intransitive subjects.
IF the sentence describing the caused event is transitive, THEN the range of noun phrase that occur in this construction will include objects.
- Keywords
- causative verb, NP, accusative case, intransitive subject, transitive object
- Domain
- inflection
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages mentioned in Moravcsik 1978d
- Source
- Moravcsik 1978d: 258
- Counterexamples
