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Coding frame

1-nom V.agr[1] að+2-dat

Example

(15)

Mennirnir leituðu að konunum.

mennir-nir

men-the.nom

leituðu

searched

að

for

konum-num

women.pl-the.dat

‘The men searched for the women.’

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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).

#	SEARCH FOR	Coding set	Argument type
1	searcher	NP-nom & V.agr	S
2	searched for thing	að+NP-dat	X

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).

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Alternation name	Occurs	Comment	Coded?	Derived Coding frame	Examples
C Impersonal passive more info	RRegularly		y	x-nom passV'.agr[x] að+2-dat	(150) Það var leitað að honum. ‘He was looked for.’ ★
U PP vs. Genitive Object more info	RRegularly		n	1-nom V'.agr[1] 2-gen	(151) Ég leitaði hans lengi. ‘I looked for him for a long time.’ ★
C Genitive Passive more info	NNever	alternation can only apply to a version of the verb with a genetive object	y		(152) Hans var leitað lengi. ‘He was looked for for a long time.’ ★
U Obj.dat vs. Obj.acc more info	NNever		n
U Nom-Dat vs. Dat-Nom more info	NNever		n
C Reciprocal Alternation more info	NNever		y
C Ambitransitive alternation with umlaut and -na more info	NNever		y
C Ambitransitive alt. with -ja more info	NNever		y
U Dative alternation (PP) more info	NNever		n
U Dative alternation (Dat-Acc) more info	NNever		n
U Locative Alternation with T.acc +með I.dat more info	NNever		n
U Transitive from intransitive more info	NNever		n
U Caused-motion from intransitive more info	NNever		n
U Ambitransitive more info	NNever		n
U Accusative Subject Ambitransitive vs. Transitive more info	NNever		n
U It–he alternation more info	NNever		n
U Dative Subject Ambitransitive vs. Transitive more info	NNever		n
U Middle more info	NNever		n
C Mediopassive (middle) more info	NNever		y
C Reflexive (mediopassive form) more info	NNever		y
C Nominative Passive more info	NNever		y
C Dative passive more info	NNever		y
U Genitive Subject Ambitransitive vs. Transitive more info	NNever		n
U Dat-Acc Ambiditransitive more info	NNever		n
C Impersonal mediopassive more info	NNever		y
C Ambitransitive with conjugation variation more info	NNever		y
U Prepositional Object alternation more info	NNever		n
U Direct Object alternation more info	NNever		n

			*Valency Patterns Leipzig online database* is edited by Hartmann, Iren & Haspelmath, Martin & Taylor, Bradley and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

leita (1)

Coding frame × Coding frame The coding frame of a verb contains the information about the way its arguments are coded, either flagged (by adpositions and case-markers on the arguments) or indexed (by person-markers on the verb).

Example × Example Glossed examples illustrate verbs, coding frames, and alternations.

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