Comparative Concept: initiator (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
initiator (sem)
| Typ | meaning |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | initiator |
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Definition
a participant role defined in terms of the participant acting on another participant in a causal chain. Example: in The cats scratched the furniture, the cats are the initiator of the causal chain cats → furniture. (Sections 6.1.1, 6.1.2)