Alternation ‘Indirective applicative’ (Coded)

The indirective applicative with -ʔəm or -aʔam is one of two productive applicatives in Sliammon. The indirective suffix followed immediately by the control or the noncontrol transitivizer creates transitive stems in which the object refers to a noncore participant in the corresponding form without the indirective suffix. It creates bivalent transitives from monovalent intransitives, and trivalent transitives from bivalent transitives. The participant indexed as the object is often benefactive, but it can also be malefactive.

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