pursuit event (sem)

Type meaning
http://example.org/cx/hasExample follow
http://example.org/cx/hasExample chase
http://example.org/cx/hasExample search (for)
http://example.org/cx/hasExample wait (for)
Definition events in which one participant's motion or location is directed toward another participant. Examples: pursuit events include following, chasing, searching for something, and waiting for someone/something; and follow, chase, search (for), and wait (for) are pursuit verbs. (Section 7.3.3)
See section (in Croft 2022) 7.3.3
Function of pursuit verb
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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