Alternation ‘Proprietive’ (Uncoded)

Vebs of removal and separation may take the Source as an ablative adjunct; alternatively, the Source may be coded as the Possessor of the Theme. While in many languages that may happen to verbs of deprivation such as still or take away by force (I stole my friend's hat vs. I stole this hat from a friend of mine), in Armenian this is extended to verbs designating separation of the part from the whole. As this is an uncoded alternation, we can not check how frequent this alternation is used with the separate verbs in the corpus. The alternation value regularly is therefore given to verbs for which we entered an example.