Alternation ‘u-Causative alternation’ (Coded)

V > S <> u-V > A > (jiʔį̄+)P; A transitive, causative, verb is derived by adding the causative prefix u- to an intransitive root. The u-causative prefix usually also occurs on transitive verbs in the equipollent causative/inchoative alternation, in which case the root is unspecified for transitivity. Like the equipollent alternation, "inchoative" does not fit all of the time as a label because verbs like 'carry'/'get carried', 'cook'/'get cooked', and 'cut'/'get cut' would have some understood unexpressed agent. Some transitive verbs contain the u-causative prefix but do not have a counterpart of lower valency, and thus are marked as NOT participating in this alternation.