The Accidental/Potential constructions with patientive intransitives require a new argument in the Possessive, while the Absolutive S argument remains unchanged. In the Accidental/Potential construction of an agentive intransitive, the single Absolutive argument of the agentive intransitive verb is put in the Possessive case and the new Absolutive argument is used. When a new Absolutive argument is added to an agentive intransitive, the construction has a transitive meaning.
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