Why not make an alignment-like system with regards to symmetrical vs. reciprocal actions? Some verbs could imaginably only take one or the other type, and here we could get an interesting set of situations:
- verbs that are exclusively symmetrical
- verbs that are exclusively reciprocal
- verbs that can be either one or the other
Potential solutions:
Trivial bipartite:One thing that feels realistic, though, is that for some verbs, you may also have occasional exceptions like so:
s = S
r = R
Asymmetrical bipartite:
s = S = r
R
or
S
s = R = r
Unhelpful bipartite (unlikely)
s = r
S = R
Tripartite I
s = r
S
R
Tripartite II
s = S
r
R
or
r = R
s
S
Diagonal Tripartite (unlikely)
s = R
r
S
or
S = r
R
s
Unhelpful Tripartite (unlikely)
s
r
S = R
Quadripartite (unlikely)
s S
r R
Exceptional Marking I
S' = R
R' = other way that coincides with some other thing in the language?
The ' there marks that these are exceptionally marked ones, and that the "R" on the right hand of the equals mark stands for the marking, not the meaning.
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