Comparative Concept: event-central construction (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
event-central construction (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | event-central construction |
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a construction that expresses an event-central information packaging. Example: in The PHONE's ringing, the most important new information is the ringing of the phone, not the existence of the phone. (Sections 10.1.2, 11.3.1)