Comparative Concept: passing (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
passing (sem)
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Alias(se) | passing |
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the intermediate phase of the path in a motion event. Example: in the Lao serial verb - construction man2 lèèn1 qòòk5 caak5 hùan2 taam3 thaang2 hòòt4 kòòn4-hiin3 'He ran (exited) from the house, followed the path, reached the rock', taam3 'follow' denotes the passing phase of the motion event. (Section 14.4)