gad ganima

Complex verb

Verb meaning: CUT [cut]

Comment: Complex Verb. Lit. 'cut + HIT'. Alternative with inflecting verb meaning 'make an impact with an edge' also exists. Although the uninflecting coverb gad is phonologically identical to English 'cut' it is most likely an inherited lexical item (if it were a Kriol borrowing it would take the transitive suffix -im).

Basic coding frame

Schema: 1-erg 2-abs subj[1].obj[2].V 3-instr

# Microrole Coding set Argument type
1 cutter NP-erg subj.V A
2 cut thing NP-abs obj.V P
3 cutting instrument NP-instr I
Examples for basic coding frame:
(69)

Gad ganima nawij Nawurlani.
gad
cut
gani-ma
3SG.A:3SG.P-hit.PST.PFV
nawij
neck
Nawurla-ni
Nawurla-ERG
Nawurla cut its neck.

Comment: Describing photos of slaughtering and cooking a turtle.

See Schultze-Berndt nd
(70)

di biyang burramanyi gadgad.
naif-di=biyang
knife-ERG/INST=SEQ
burra-ma-nyi
3PL.A:3SG.P-hit-PST.IPFV
gad-gad
RDP-cut
They cut it with a knife.

Comment: Angular brackets <> mark Kriol words.

See Schultze-Berndt nd
(71)

ni gad ganima , .
kwin-ni
queen-ERG
gad
cut
gani-ma
3SG.A:3SG.P-hit.PST.PFV
dem
dam
ribon
ribbon
The queen cut the dam, the ribbon.

Comment: I.e. the Queen opened the dam by cutting the ribbon. Account of the opening of Argyle dam near Kununurra, W.A. Angular brackets <> mark Kriol words.

See Schultze-Berndt nd

Alternations

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