nkay-ū-kéʔ

Language: Zenzontepec Chatino

Contributors: Eric Campbell

Complex verb

Verb meaning: COOK [cook]

Comment: /nkay-u-ākéʔ/; CPL-CAUS-get.cooked

Basic coding frame

Schema: V 1 jiʔį̄+2 (lóʔō+3)

# Microrole Coding set Argument type
1 cooker Ø A
2 cooked food jiʔį̄+NP P
3 cooking instrument lóʔō+NP I
Examples for basic coding frame:
(130)

"Nkāyūkéʔ tīké ntē nī" nakwęūʔ jį̄ nyáʔaūʔ "jā kakuna."
nkāy-ū-kéʔ
CPL-CAUS-get.cooked
tīké
liver
ntē
DEM
now
nakwę=ūʔ
say=3PL
jiʔį̄
RN
nyáʔa=ūʔ
mother=3PL
CONJ
k-aku=na
POT-eat=1PL.INCL
"Cook this liver", they told their mother, "so that we may eat."

(249)

Mariyā nteyūkéʔ súkwā lóʔō na ketǫʔó.
mariyā
María
ntey-ū-kéʔ
PRG-CAUS-get.cooked
súkwā
food
lóʔō
RN.with
na
ART
ketǫʔ=V́
pot=DEM
María is cooking the food in the pot.

Alternations

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