Comparative Concept: antecedent role (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
antecedent role (sem)
| Typ | meaning |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | antecedent role |
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a participant role that is antecedent to the participant role expressed as object in the causal chain / causal structure of an event. Example: in Jack broke the window with a hammer, the hammer is antecedent to the window in the breaking causal chain (Jack → hammer → window), and the window is expressed as object. (Section 6.1.2)