depictive complex predicate (cxn)

Type construction
http://example.org/cx/hasExample I ate the carrots raw
Definition a stative complex predicate in which the stative component of the complex predicate describes a state that holds at the same time as the event denoted by the main predicate. A depictive complex predicate is participant-oriented. Example: in English I ate the carrots raw, ate...raw is a depictive complex predicate, and raw describes a state of the carrots as they were being eaten. (Section 14.1)
altLabel depictive (complex predicate)
altLabel depictive secondary predicate
See section (in Croft 2022) 14.1
Subtype of stative complex predicate

Source

The Model of Comparative concepts for Constructicon Alignment (MoCCA; Lorenzi et al. 2024) proposes to connect constructions across and within languages using Comparative Concepts as a shared base of comparison. It adopts the set of Comparative Concepts provided by Croft (2022).

Croft, William. 2022. Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World’s Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/morphosyntax/1AAB4F5F9C553F675170DCA3F03F82E2#contents. (14 October, 2025).
Lorenzi, Arthur, Peter Ljunglöf, Ben Lyngfelt, Tiago Timponi Torrent, William Croft, Alexander Ziem, Nina Böbel, Linnéa Bäckström, Peter Uhrig & Ely E Matos. 2024. MoCCA: A Model of Comparative Concepts for Aligning Constructicons. In Proceedings of the 20th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation @ LREC-COLING 2024, 93–98. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.isa-1.12/. (22 July, 2025).

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