Comparative Concept: affecting verb (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
affecting verb (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | affecting verb • affect |
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a verb that expresses an affecting event. Example: The dog surprised me is an instance of an affecting event, and surprise is an affecting verb. (Section 7.4)