mi-ru

Language: Mitsukaido Japanese

Contributors: Kan Sasaki

Complex verb

Verb meaning: LOOK AT [look-at]

Comment: me:- is a form derived through vowel coalescence from /mi-e-/ 'look.at-POT'. (cf. potential alternation, or lexical argument increasing alternation)

Basic coding frame

Schema: 1-nom 2-acc V

# Microrole Coding set Argument type
1 looker NP-nom A
2 looked at entity NP-acc P
Examples for basic coding frame:
(10)

Hono odogo jarokkogodo mida.
hono
that
odogo
man.NOM
jarokko=godo
boy=ACC
mi-da
look.at-PST
That man looked at the boy.

Alternations

Alternation Derived coding frame Alternation class Occurs Comment # Ex.