me:-ru

Language: Mitsukaido Japanese

Contributors: Kan Sasaki

Complex verb

Verb meaning: SEE [see]

Comment: me:- is a form derived through the vowel coalescence from /mi-e-/ 'look.at-POT'

Basic coding frame

Schema: 1-exp 2-acc V

# Microrole Coding set Argument type
1 seeer NP-exp X
2 seen entity NP-acc X
Examples for basic coding frame:
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Orenganja jarokkogodo me:da.
ore=nganja
1sg=EXP.TOP
jarokko=godo
boy=ACC
me:-da
see.POT-PST
I could see the boy.

Comment: potential sentence (ability)

Alternations

Alternation Derived coding frame Alternation class Occurs Comment # Ex.