less affected P (sem)

Type meaning
http://example.org/cx/hasExample The coyote chewed on the deer bone
http://example.org/cx/hasExample The coyote chewed the deer bone
Definition a function related to the function of the antipassive construction, in which the P participant is less affected than it is in the equivalent event expressed by transitive construction. Example: in The coyote chewed on the deer bone, the deer bone is a less affected P participant than in the transitive The coyote chewed the deer bone. (Section 8.4)
altLabel LAP
See section (in Croft 2022) 8.4
Function of antipassive oblique phrase
Subtype of P role

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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