A typically bivalent verb is used in a monovalent coding frame with the subject simultaenously performing the role of Agent and Patient, without there being any overt coding of the alternation. Verbs like wash and dress and other verbs of "caring for the body", whose primary frame is transitive, frequently appear without any overt object (in a nonbasic frame), with the implication that the subject washes, dresses, etc., him or herself (Cf. English understood reflexive object; Levin 1993: 35f).
| Verb Meaning | Verb form | Basic coding frame | Derived coding frame | Occurs | Comment | # Ex. | |
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