Language: Zenzontepec Chatino
Contributors: Eric Campbell
Simplex verb
Verb meaning: GET [get]
Comment: /nku-ajī/; CPL-get; The root is -ājī. It is ambitransitive. From it is derived an anticausative that removes any possible source argument, and it means 'find it'. That verb is also ambitransitive, and its intransitive form means 'appear'. The argument flagged by lóʔō is the source.
Schema: V 1 jiʔį̄+2 (lóʔō+3)
| # | Microrole | Coding set | Argument type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receiver | Ø | A |
| 2 | received thing | jiʔį̄+NP | P |
| 3 | receiving source | lóʔō+NP | I |
| (55) |
nku-ta=y-u_na! na nkwi!tza& -V7 nakwe& laa7 juti ji7i_& kwenta_ nu k-a_ja! lyo7o Nkutayūná na nkwítząaʔ nakwę laaʔ juti jį̄ kwentā nu kājá lyoʔo. nku-ta-y-ūná CPL-begin-CPL-cry na ART nkwítzą=Vʔ child=DEM nakwę say laaʔ like.so juti father(.3) jiʔį̄ RN(.3) kwentā because.of nu NOM k-ājá POT-get(.3) lyoʔo spouse The girl began to cry because her father told her she was going to get a husband. |
| (56) |
wala nku-jwi_ ti_ kwa7a& ji7i_& nuwe&7 Wala nku-jwī tī kwaʔą jnuwę̄ʔ? wala where nku-jwī CPL-get tī EMPH kwaʔą 2PL jiʔį̄ RN nu NOM wiʔ DEM Where did you get that? |
| (57) |
Lóʔō nyáʔaą̄ʔ nkujwīį́ʔ jį̄. lóʔō RN.with nyáʔa=ą̄ʔ mother=1SG nku-jwī=ą̄ʔ CPL-get=1SG jiʔį̄ RN(.3) From my mother I got it. |
| Alternation | Derived coding frame | Alternation class | Occurs | Comment | # Ex. | |
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