Comparative Concept: spontaneous verb (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
spontaneous verb (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | spontaneous verb |
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the verb expressing a spontaneous event. Examples: dying and melting are spontaneous events, and die and melt are spontaneous event verbs. (Sections 6.3.4, 7.2)