Alternation ‘reciprocal alternation with polyptotic construction’ (Uncoded)

The reciprocal alternation is almost exclusively encoded by the reflexive pronoun sik (or its equivalent first and second person pronouns) accompanied by the adverb misso ‘mutually’. Occasionally, reciprocity is encoded via a bipartite construction of the polyptotic type (cf. Nedjalkov 2007: 154–157 and Evans 2008: 46 on this terminology): anþar-nom anþar-acc.

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