Comparative Concept: change of state verb (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
change of state verb (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | change of state verb • COS verb |
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the verb expressing a change of state event. Example: the event of dishes becoming dry is a change of state event, and dry is a change of state verb. (Sections 6.1.2, 6.2.1)