Alternation ‘Direct Reciprocal Reflexive’ (Coded)

A pattern where the verb is (di)transitive and the two nuclear arguments A and P act on each other and are both agent and patient of the verbal activity (Benefactive in Indirect Reciprocal Reflexive). In its non-canonical realizations A may be inanimate. In this pattern, reciprocity is often overtly expressed by means of the adverbials a vicenda, reciprocamente 'reciprocally' and by phrases such as l'un l'altro 'each other', which disambiguate the reflexive from the reciprocal interpretations (Cennamo 2011c and references therein).