Comparative Concept: eventive complex predicate (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
eventive complex predicate (cxn)
| Typ | construction (def) |
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| Alias(se) | eventive complex predicate |
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| Spraakbanken | eventive complex predicate (cxn) |
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Definition
a complex predicate in which both elements of the complex predicate denote processes, and those processes constitute the subevents of the event denoted by the basic event complex predicate as a whole. Example: in English Please go get the newspaper, go get is an example of a basic event complex predicate. (Section 13.1.2)