event (sem)

Type meaning
Definition a superordinate category including both action concepts and state concepts. The term event has other meanings, including what we call a telic event. Other terms listed above are also used for event as it is defined here. (Sections 2.1, 6.1.1)
altLabel SOA
altLabel event (concept)
altLabel eventuality
altLabel situation
altLabel state of affairs
See section (in Croft 2022) 2.1
See section (in Croft 2022) 6.1.1
Function of clause
Function of complement clause construction
Function of dependent clause
Function of main clause
Function of matrix clause
Function of noun complement
Function of noun complement clause construction
Function of relative clause construction
Function of subordinate clause
Subtype of entity

Constructions in the Research Constructicon using this comparative concept

Comparative Construction

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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