(Infrequent type of) alternation which only applies to UVs such as jurriya 'knowledgeable/know' which have dual part of speech membership i.e. can double as predicative nominals and therefore occur in a verbless clause. The alternation is between the verbless clause with the main argument in the absolutive but cross-referenced by a dative pronominal clitic if animate, and a verbal clause where the predicate is combined with the intransitive stative IV gagba 'be' and the main argument in the absolutive and cross-referenced by the S prefix on the IV.
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