diyath

Coding frame

1-dat 2-acc V

Simplex Verb form

Examples

(94)

Hathu haari puthrinang Andarepe biiniyang màdiyathnang hathu sukahan sudhaathang.

hathu

one

haari

day

puthri=nang

queen=dat

Andare=pe

Andare=poss

biini=yang

wife=acc

mà-diyath=nang

inf-see=dat

hathu

indef

sukahan

desire

su-dhaathang

past-come

‘One day, the queen got the desire to see Andare's wife.’

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(95)

Oorangyang asàdiyathapa godang bolejaaith kaasi .

oorang=yang

man=acc

asà-diyath=apa

cp-look.at=after

go=dang

1s=dat

bole-jaaith

can-sew

kaasi

give

‘After having looked at a man, I can tailor (something) for him.’

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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).

#	LOOK AT	Coding set	Argument type
1	looker	NP-dat	X
2	looked at entity	NP-acc	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	Coded?
U Reciprocal alternation	–No data	n
U General NP addition more info	MMarginally	n
U General NP drop more info	RRegularly	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.

diyath

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).

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Coding frame

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