Comparative Concept: uncontrolled activity (sem) / predicate (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
uncontrolled activity (sem) / predicate (cxn)
| Typ | meaning (def) construction (def) |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | uncontrolled activity/predicate • uncontrolled |
| Assoziiert | |
| Spraakbanken | uncontrolled activity (sem) / predicate (cxn) |
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Definition
the event class of activities not under the control of an agent (apart from uncontrolled bodily actions and change of state); and the predicates that express events in this class. Example: dying is an uncontrolled activity, and die is an uncontrolled activity predicate. (Section 6.3.3)