kawaku

Language: Japanese (standard)

Contributors: Hideki Kishimoto and Taro Kageyama

Simplex verb

Verb meaning: BE DRY [be-dry]

Comment: Kawaku is an intransitive change-of-state verb, and Japanese does not have the adjective for 'be dry'. So the stative meaning is denoted by adding the resultative auxiliary to kawaku.

Basic coding frame

Schema: 1-nom V

# Microrole Coding set Argument type
1 dry thing NP-nom S
Examples for basic coding frame:
(72)

Zimen-ga kawai-te i-ru.
zimen-ga
ground-nom
kawai-te
dry-ger
i-ru
be-pres
The ground is dry.

Alternations

Alternation Derived coding frame Alternation class Occurs Comment # Ex.