| Type | construction |
|---|---|
| Definition |
an argument structure construction that conforms to the prototypical parallel ranking of participant role and argument salience. Example: I ate the smoked salmon is an instance of a basic voice construction -- semantically, I act upon the salmon, and I am more salient than the salmon in the discourse. Basic voice constructions are also called activeor directconstructions. (Sections 6.1.1, 8.1) |
| alternative label |
active voice construction
basic voice (construction) direct voice construction |
| See section (in Croft 2022) |
6.1.1
8.1 |
| Example | I ate the smoked salmon |
| Subtype of |
clause
prototypical construction |
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).
You can consult this entry in the original database here.