Alternation ‘Reflexive Middle’ for Verb form ‘očistitʹ

Basic coding frame Derived coding frame
1-nom V.subj[1] 2-acc (ot+3-gen) N/A

Alternation occurs: Marginally

Examples for basic coding frame

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Поварёнок очистил картошку от кожуры.
Povarënok očistil kartošku ot kožury.
povarënok
kitchen.boy
očisti-l
peel.PFV-PST.M.SG
kartošk-u
potatoes-ACC
ot
from
kožur-y
skin-GEN
The kitchen boy peeled the potatoes.

Comment: Lit. ‘peeled the potatoes from the skin’