Comparative Concept: undirected change (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
undirected change (sem)
| Typ | meaning |
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| Alias(se) | undirected change |
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an event in which the change that a participant undergoes in the course of an event is not in any particular 'direction'. Example: in The ball was bouncing in the playpen, the ball does not undergo an incremental or 'directed' change in either vertical or horizontal direction: the vertical motion is up and down, and the horizontal motion goes in any direction. (Section 6.2.1)