Alternation ‘Extraversive’ (Coded)

Extraversive construction: [ [ Pn ]PC.i [ [ W ]V.intr_act -t ]V.tr -Absj [ P ]NP.j [ A ]NP.i ]VCC; "A acts on P". The intransitive active base W is converted into a transitive verb by the -t suffix. A is the subject of both the base and the derived verb, and the direct object P is often unforeseeable from the point of view of the base construction. It is almost an applicative, except that no promotion is involved, and instead it is a generic transitivization process, even with non-verbal bases W. This is a subtype of the basic transitive verb construction.

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