manner complex predicate (cxn)

Type construction
http://example.org/cx/hasExample We crawled down the slope slowly
Definition a stative complex predicate in which the stative component of the complex predicate describes a state that holds of the event denoted by the main predicate. Hence, the state holds at the same time as the event. Manner complex predicates are event-oriented. Example: in English We crawled down the slope slowly, crawl... slowly is a manner complex predicate, and slowly describes a property of the crawling event. (Section 14.1)
altLabel manner adverb
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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