Comparative Concept: cause (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
cause (sem)
| Typ | meaning |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | cause |
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a semantic role including participant roles for a participant, usually an event, that causes the event expressed by the predicate. Example: in The house collapsed from neglect, the neglect is the cause of the house collapsing. (Section 6.1.2)