| 1. | These are split into two varieties : agentive and patientive ambitransitives.
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| 2. | Lexical causatives are apparently constrained to involving only one agentive argument.
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| 3. | Zero-derived agentive nouns may show plurality by means of subject markers.
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| 4. | The agentive is used for ergative and instrumental functions.
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| 5. | Cross-linguistically, the agentive argument tends to be marked, and the patientive argument tends to be unmarked.
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| 6. | That is, for any given intransitive verb the speaker may choose whether to mark the argument as agentive or patientive.
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| 7. | Plurality in these forms is normally marked only by the use of the duo-plural agentive suffix in place of singular.
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| 8. | In these scenarios, the verb takes on additional morphology to show for a non-agentive reading on the initial argument.
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| 9. | The agent of the action is indicated with the agentive ( " actance " ) prefix and a suffix expressing person and number.
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| 10. | For example, " shaman " may be either, with an overt agentive suffix, but the zero-marked is more common.
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