Alternation ‘indirect passive’ (Coded)

The passive predicate is formed through suffixation of /rare/. The external argument is demoted to oblique status and it is case-marked with the locative case particle =ni. The elements promoting into the subject position are elements other than the objects of the corresponding active sentences. The semantic role of the subject in the indirect passive construction is maleficiary.

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