In this article I discuss a verbal category in the Ashti dialect of Kubachi Dargwa (Nakh-Daghestanian) which is expressed by so-called “thematic” markers in 1st and 2nd person forms of certain peripheral verbal paradigms. In other varieties of Dargwa, such markers have been described as expressing transitivity or inverse. However, neither of these analyses is applicable to Ashti, as intransitive verbs can use both the “transitive” and the “intransitive” markers. The choice is determined by several factors, in particular, telicity, volitionality and probability of the situation. The data that we possess at the moment do not allow assigning this category to any of the other types of “split intransitivity” described in the literature. As a preliminary generalization, one may say that “thematic” markers in Ashti denote the degree of control of the situation by the absolutive argument.