Alternation ‘Facilitative alternation’ (Coded)

e.g. A breaks P --> P is easy to break. For this alternation the instrumental prefix is omitted and the verbal root is (partially) reduplicated (e.g. mąą-cgiis --> cgiicgis). This is a valency-decreasing operation, whereby the agent of the transitive verb can no longer be expressed and the patient of the same becomes the subject of the newly derived intransitive verb. Only verbs which have been derived with one of the 8 instrumental prefixes can undergo this alternation. Not all of them do so.

Verb Meaning Verb form Basic coding frame Derived coding frame Occurs Comment # Ex.