The multipurpose preposition bi- serves productively as a transitivizer of motion-verb constructions. It occurs only with verbs of stem I. If it marks a human noun phrase it can be analysed as comitative: ǧāʾa bi- ‘come with’, d̠ahaba bi- ‘go with’, but it is used with inanimate entities as well. The coding frames of the alternation are: V.subj[A] A-nom <->; V.subj[A] A-nom bi-T
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