Comparative Concept: chaining construction (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
chaining construction (cxn)
Typ | construction |
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Alias(se) | chaining construction |
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the construction expressing such a chaining event. Example: in The guests followed one another into the room, each guest is a follower and a 'followee', except the first and last in the chain. It is also possible to have a closed chain, as in people following each other in a circle, in which all participants are both initiator and endpoint. (Section 7.2)