Universal 900: antipassive ⇔ imperfective aspect & low-level object individuation
- 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.
- 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
- Counterexamples
