CASA|Con The CASA-ConstructiCon of the English Language


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Name First-Person-Singular-Present-Tense Construction
Semantic function of cxn Relating a 'process' with the speaker as participant to the time of the utterance or giving it a neutral 'timeless' interpretation.
Usage conditions VTM-slot in sentence type constructions with I as subject or VTM-slot of a corresponding sentence fragment construction.
Slots 1
Syntactic form
VPresT1SG
am or Vbase