CASA — A Constructionist Approach to Syntactic Analysis

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On-FOCUS-AREA Construction

Name On-FOCUS-AREA Construction
Semantic function of cxn An AGENT performs an action with respect to a FOCUS.
Slots Slot 1: argument Slot 2: predicate Slot 3: argument
Semantic role of slots ÆFFECTOR FOCUS/TOPIC

Syntactic function  

potential subject unit in predicate
Syntactic form NP V PPon
Example And if you don't act on climate change, it's - inevitably something's going to happen.COCA-2010-SPOK