Comparative Concept: attending verb (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
attending verb (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | attending verb |
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a verb that expresses an attending event. Example: I am looking at the sandhill crane is an instance of an attending event, and look (at) is an attending verb. (Section 7.4)