Comparative Concept: pursuit event (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
pursuit event (sem)
| Typ | meaning |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | pursuit event |
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events in which one participant's motion or location is directed toward another participant. Examples: pursuit events include following, chasing, searching for something, and waiting for someone/something; and follow, chase, search (for), and wait (for) are pursuit verbs. (Section 7.3.3)