Comparative Concept: collective event (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
collective event (sem)
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Alias(se) | collective event |
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an event type in which two participants both play the same role in two related events (that is, they do it 'together'). Example: in Mary and Sue left together, Mary leaves and Sue leaves, and the two leaving events are connected. (Section 7.2)