motion event (sem)

Type meaning
http://example.org/cx/hasExample fly
http://example.org/cx/hasExample go
Definition a monovalent event involving motion of a participant from one place to another (translational motion). Examples: fly and go express motion events. Motion events contrast with bodily motion events: motion events involve movement from one location to another, whereas bodily motion events involve internal motion of a body part. Motion events may express path of motion or manner of motion, or both. Motion events may be divided into departure, passing, and arrival phases of the path of motion. (Sections 7.2, 7.3.1, 14.4)
altLabel motion (event)
See section (in Croft 2022) 14.4
See section (in Croft 2022) 7.2
See section (in Croft 2022) 7.3.1
Function of motion construction
Subtype of spatial event

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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