deyða

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Sounds very old fashioned.

Coding frame

Example

(38)
Maðurinn deyddi óvin sinn með kylfu.
maður-inn
man-the.nom
deyddi
killed
óvin
enemy.acc
sinn
his.acc
með
with
kylfu
club.dat
‘The man killed his enemy with a club.’
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Verb meaning , Microroles , Coding sets and Argument types

# KILL Coding set Argument type
1 killer NP-nom & V.agr A
2 killee NP-acc P
3 killing instrument með +NP-dat I

Alternations

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Alternation name Occurs Examples
C
Ambitransitive alt. with -ja more info
R y
(39)
Óvinurinn dó.
‘The enemy died.’
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U
Obj.dat vs. Obj.acc more info
N n
U
Nom-Dat vs. Dat-Nom more info
N n
C
Reciprocal Alternation more info
N y
C
Ambitransitive alternation with umlaut and -na more info
N y
U
Dative alternation (PP) more info
N n
U
Dative alternation (Dat-Acc) more info
N n
U
Locative Alternation with T.acc +með I.dat more info
N n
U
Transitive from intransitive more info
N n
U
Caused-motion from intransitive more info
N n
U
Ambitransitive more info
N n
U
Accusative Subject Ambitransitive vs. Transitive more info
N n
U
It–he alternation more info
N n
U
Dative Subject Ambitransitive vs. Transitive more info
N n
U
Middle more info
N n
C
Mediopassive (middle) more info
N y
C
Reflexive (mediopassive form) more info
N y
C
Nominative Passive more info
N y
C
Impersonal passive more info
N y
U
PP vs. Genitive Object more info
N n
C
Genitive Passive more info
N y
C
Dative passive more info
N y
U
Genitive Subject Ambitransitive vs. Transitive more info
N n
U
Dat-Acc Ambiditransitive more info
N n
C
Impersonal mediopassive more info
N y
C
Ambitransitive with conjugation variation more info
N y
U
Prepositional Object alternation more info
N n
U
Direct Object alternation more info
N n