Alternation ‘reciprocal’ (Uncoded)

Reciprocal constructions behave similarly to reflexive ones, in that they have “the two nuclear arguments A and P acting on each other and being both agent and patient” (Cennamo 2015: 453). This might have been expressed by apparently the same construction as a plural subject + a reflexive personal pronoun object.

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