Alternation ‘Causative-inchoative alternation of "cooking" predicates’ (Coded)

S = P. A good illustration of how valency alternations are interwoven with the specific semantics of IVs are a class of predicates encoding conventionalised, culture-specific ways of applying heat. This includes not only manner of cooking, but also drying, applying heat or smoke for medicinal purposes and ritual cleansing, and the (usually deliberate) lighting of bush fires. For example, the UV murl ‘heat with hot ground or stones’ can describe both roasting of food in a ground oven (with stones), and heating parts of the human body by means of hot ground for medicinal purposes. None of these UVs entails that a state of change results from the application of heat (e.g. consumption by fire), although a number of them may convey, by implicature, the interpretation that the cooked, edible state of food is reached. UVs from this class combine with IVs garna ‘burn’ as well as with one of a number of transitive verbs. Usually, this is ganirriga ‘cook’, the transitive equivalent of garna, but other verbs are also possible.

Verb Meaning Verb form Basic coding frame Derived coding frame Occurs Comment # Ex.