seki-o suru

Language: Japanese (standard)

Contributors: Hideki Kishimoto and Taro Kageyama

Complex verb

Verb meaning: COUGH [cough]

Comment: The noun seki 'a cough' is derived from the verb seku, which is almost archaic in contemporary Japanese.

Basic coding frame

Schema: 1-nom V

# Microrole Coding set Argument type
1 cougher NP-nom S
Examples for basic coding frame:
(51)

Roozin-ga seki-o si-ta.
roozin-ga
old.man-nom
seki-o
cough-acc
si-ta
do-past
The old man coughed.

Alternations

Alternation Derived coding frame Occurs Comment # Ex.