Comparative Concept: body position predicate (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
body position predicate (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
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| Alias(se) | body position predicate • locative stative predicate • maintain position predicate • posture predicate |
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the predicates that express events in the body position event class. Example: standing is a body position event, and stand is a body position predicate. (Section 6.3.3)