Comparative Concept: result verb (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
result verb (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | result verb |
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the verb expressing a result event. Example: in Peter broke the window, the event is described in terms of the result state that is reached (a broken window). (Section 7.3.2)