weh tun

Coding frame

1-dat V.subj[2] 2-nom

Complex Verb form

Verb type: AV

Example

(53)

Mir tut der Kopf weh.

mir

1SG.DAT

tut

hurt.3SG.PRS

der

DEF.M.NOM

Kopf

head(NOM)

weh

VPCL

‘My head is hurting. / I am feeling pain in my head.’

Verb meaning , Microroles , Coding sets

Coding set

A coding set is the coding means of an argument. If the argument is only flagged (coded by an adposition or case), its coding set consists of the flag. If it is only indexed, the coding set consist of the index-series (e.g. subject marking). If it is both flagged and indexed, it consists of both flag and index-series.

and Argument types

Argument type

Arguments are classified into cross-linguistic argument types: A (argument coded like the 'breaker' of 'break'), P (argument coded like the 'broken thing' of 'break'), S (sole argument of a verb that lacks A and P), I (argument coded like the instrument of 'cut'), L (coded like the sitting location of 'sit'), and X (all others).

#	FEEL PAIN	Coding set	Argument type
1	pain-feeler	NP-dat	X
2	pain locus	NP-nom V.subj	S

Alternations

Alternation

A valency alternation is defined as a set of two different coding frames that are productively (or at least regularly) associated with both members of a set of verb pairs sharing the same verb stem. Alternations may be coded (marked by an affix on the verb, or by an auxiliary, like the English Passive) or uncoded (like the English Dative alternation).

Filter by type:

Filter by occurrence:

Alternation name	Occurs	Comment	Coded?	Derived Coding frame	Examples
C be- Alternation (I) more info	NNever		y
C er- Alternation more info	NNever		y
U Cognate Object Insertion more info	NNever		n
C be- Alternation (II) more info	NNever		y
U Benefactive Alternation more info	NNever		n
U Object Omission Alternation more info	NNever		n
C ver- Alternation more info	NNever		y
U Ambitransitive Alternation (A>S) more info	NNever		n
C Prepositional Alternation more info	NNever		y
C Passive with werden more info	NNever		y
C Anticausative Alternation more info	NNever		y
U Instrument Subject Alternation more info	NNever		n
C Impersonal Passive	NNever		y
C Passive with sein	NNever		y