(By Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm): "Map 62A shows the distribution across the world’s languages of constructions corresponding to the English John’s running and the enemy’s destruction of the city. These are action nominal constructions (ANCs), i.e. constructions which have an action nominal (AN, running, destruction) as their head and contain a reference to the participants in the situation designated by that AN. ANs themselves are either nouns or at least occur in typical nominal positions and show inflectional properties and/or combinability with adpositions typical of nouns. They are, however, in some reasonably productive way derived from verbs, either derivationally or inflectionally, and refer to events and/or facts, i.e. not just to actions, as the name might imply. The issue at stake is whether words like running and destruction exist in a language at all and if so, how they combine with their arguments – such as John (the S argument), the enemy (the A argument) and the city (the P argument)."
The role labels S, A and P are used in a semantic sense in this WALS feature, not in the argument-type sense that is adopted in the Grammaticon.