Language: Mandarin Chinese (PTH)
Contributors: Guohua Zhang
Complex verb
Verb meaning: BE ILL [be-ill]
Comment: shēngbìng literally means 'beget-illness', which is most probably a causative construction as a relic of archiac Chinese, meaning 'to cause illness to turn out'. But in modern Chinese, it is used just as a somewhat lexicalized intransitive verbal phrase. When necessary, one can split up the phrase and insert aspectual markers like le or guo and modifers can be used to modify bìng ('illness') as in yī-chǎng-dà-bìng (lit. 'one-CL serious-illness'), meaning 'a serious disease'.
Schema: 1 > V
| # | Microrole | Coding set | Argument type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sick person | Ø | S |
| (23) |
小王今天生病了。 Xiǎo Wáng jīntiān shēngbìng le. Xiao Xiao Wang Wang jintian today shengbing-le be.ill-PERF Little Wang is ill today. |
| Alternation | Derived coding frame | Occurs | Comment | # Ex. | |
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