Reading Quiz Qns
- If a language has a passive construction, it will also have an impersonal construction.
- NO
- If lang has impersonal, then it will have passive
- In what types of languages are passives found?
- Accusative
- Ergative: a number of ergative langs do have passive construction
- Which of the following types of constructions can be found in all languages of the world?
- NOT Passive
- NOT Antipassive
- NOT Impersonal
- NOT causative
- NOT Applicative
- Which of the following is a valence-reducing process?
- Passive
- Antipassive
- Impersonal
- Which of the following is a valence-increasing process?
- Causative