Alternation ‘Reflexive’ (Coded)

Reflexive construction of a transitive verb: [ [ W ]V.tr [ possA báah ]NP ] [ A ]NP; "A does W to himself"; Báah 'self' takes possessive clitics cross-referencing the subject (as in English). The phrase poss báah ('A's self') takes the stead of W's direct object, A is the subject and poss codes person and number of A. Since báah is the direct object, this is a subtype of the basic transitive construction.

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