Comparative Concept: agentive change of state verb (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
agentive change of state verb (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | agentive change of state verb |
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a verb that expresses an agentive change of state event. Example: the event of a person drying dishes is an agentive change of state event, and dry is an agentive change of state verb. (Section 6.2.1)