kʷay-iš

Language: Sliammon

Contributors: Honore Watanabe

Verb meaning: HIDE [hide]

Comment: For the hiding malefactive, there is only data for the context 'he is hiding from X'. 'hide sth. from X' can only be expressed by an oblique NP, with the all-purpose oblique proclitic ʔə= x.

Basic coding frame

Schema: V.obj[1].sbj[2] 1

# Microrole Coding set Argument type
1 hidden thing V.obj P
2 hider V.sbj A
Examples for basic coding frame:
(15)

kʷayiš =tᶿəm tə= pəču.
kʷay-iš-∅
hide-CTR-3.OBJ
=tᶿəm
=1SG.INDC.SBJ:FUT
tə=
DET=
pəču
basket
I will hide the basket.

Alternations

Alternation Derived coding frame Alternation class Occurs Comment # Ex.