Comparative Concept: force (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
force (sem)
| Typ | meaning |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | force |
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Definition
a semantic role including participant roles for a participant that initiates an event but is not volitional (usually because it is not human), i.e. is not an agent. Example: in Lightning shattered the old tree, the lightning initiates the shattering event but is not an agent. (Section 6.1.2)