Comparative Concept: endpoint (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
endpoint (sem)
Typ | meaning |
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Alias(se) | endpoint |
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Definition
a participant role defined in terms of the participant being acted upon by another participant in a causal chain. Example: in The cats scratched the furniture, the furniture is the endpoint of the causal chain [cats → furniture]. (Sections 6.1.1, 6.1.2)