Alternation ‘Object-oriented reciprocal’ (Coded)

Prefix u-. Valency reducing, object deleting, the so-called object-oriented reciprocal with the meaning of joining sth/sb together. A distinctive feature of this diathesis type is the omission of one of the objects co-referential with another object. Unlike subject-oriented constructions, these may have a singular subject, while the object is as a rule plural semantically or it refers to an entity composed of some parts involved in the action. The reciprocals belonging here denote joining, mixing, comparing two or more entities together and the like. There are about 20 object-oriented reciprocals in our corpus and all of them are derived either from three-argument causatives or applicatives (Alpatov et al. 2007: 1776).

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