alda (알다)

Simplex verb

Verb meaning: KNOW [know]

Comment: The morphological causative of this verb can mean various things from 'let so. know' up to 'inform sb.'. The morphological causative adds a dative argument to the verb's valency. Curiously, this verb does not undergo passivisation in its base form, but instead, apprently one has to apply the morphological causative first, and then passivise the verb using the periphrastic passive (see ex. 299).

Examples: see at the bottom

Basic coding frame

Schema: 1-nom 2-acc V

# Microrole Coding set Argument type
1 knower NP-nom A
2 known thing/person NP-acc P
Examples for basic coding frame:
(62)

그는 이미 그 사실을 알고 있었다.
Geuneun imi geu sasireul algo isseotta.
geu-neun
he-TOP
imi
already
geu
that
sasil-eul
fact-ACC
al-go
know-CONV
iss-eoss-da
be-PST-DECL
He already knew that fact.
(63)

아이는 그 얘기를 알고 있었다.
Aineun geu yaegireul algo isseotta.
ai-neun
child-TOP
geu
that
yaegi-reul
story-ACC
al-go
know-CONV
iss-eoss-da
be-PST-DECL
The child already knew that story.

Alternations

Alternation Derived coding frame Alternation class Occurs Comment # Ex.

Examples

(299)

어제 밤 그 사실이 온 국민에게 알려졌다.
Eoje bam geu sasiri on gukminege allyeojyeotta.
eoje
yesterday
bam
night
geu
that
sasil-i
truth-NOM
on
all
gukmin-ege
citizens-DAT
al-li-eo
know-CAUS-CONV
ji-eoss-da
PASS.AUX-PST-DECL
That fact went public yesterday.