ABSTRACT

# In the valence indication, means the verb is a compound or phrasal one whose first part functions as object and agreement trigger. For example, diexar du 'ask' has the valence indication (Erg - Dat - #diexar), showing that it takes an ergative subject and a dative indirect object, and the element diexar 'request', though lexically part of a phrasal verb, functions syntactically as direct object.