Tibetan Verbs That Are Both Heteronomous-Intransitive and Autonomous-Transitive

Some verbs in Tibetan seem to have both heteronomous-intransitive and autonomous-transitive senses: (a) slu ba “to be deceptive” (heteronomous-intransitive), e.g. x la mi slu ba “to be non-deceptive with regard to x,”  rang gi don byed pa la mi bslu ba (RZ1: 192) “to be non-deceptive with regard to fulfilling one’s objective.” (b) slu ba “to deceive” (autonomous-transitive), eg. x slu ba “to deceive x,” gzhan bslu ba (RZ1: 217) “to deceive others.”

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