Alternation ‘Reciprocal’

Reciprocal function is expressed either by declined reciprocal pronouns memegilver 'each other', memeriver 'each other', memegil-du-ver (dat.) 'to each other', memegil-nun-mer (-nun - comitative marker) 'with each other', me:rver 'each other', memegil-duk-ver (abl.) 'from each other', memegil-duli-ver (prol.) 'about each other', in conjunction with a plural verb form or/and by derivational means. The latter include principally the use of specialized reciprocal affix -mAt or the use of affix -ldy- whose main function is sociative (comitative) relation. Reciprocal pronouns are obligatory for the expression of the reciprocal meaning if the specialized reciprocal affix -mAt is lacking in the verb form and the comitative object is not expressed. Otherwise reciprocal pronouns are, as a rule, optional, but if the comitative object is present in the construction the reciprocal pronoun is excluded.