Alternation ‘Indirect Reciprocal’ (Coded)

A/nom P/acc IO/obl V -> A/nom P/acc V-rec; The reciprocal is coded by the verbal suffix -mat-, and can mark cross-coreferentiality with direct but also (animate) indirect objects. Furthermore one can distinguish between argument vs. possessive reciprocals; in the second case the cross-coreferentiality holds between the subject and the possessor of an object. Only reciprocals of the argument type are taken into account in grammaticality judgments. Only a indirect reciprocal costruction involving cross-coreferentiality between the subject and the indirect object is represented here. (The second argument of a transitive verb does not take part in this alternation, but see Direct Reciprocal)

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