| Type | construction |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | The engineers placed sandbags on the levee |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | The grizzlies ate the salmon |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | The salmon were eaten by the grizzlies |
| Definition |
a construction that performs the function of predication, including the predicate (which may be a complex predicate) and the referring phrases and other roles dependent on the predication. Example: The birds were singing is an instance of a clausal construction. This is the prototypical function of clauses; there are also nonpredicational clauses that perform different information packaging functions. The prototypical predicational clause is a verbal clause. (Sections 1.3, 2.2.2, 6.1.1) a clause construction that consists of the predicate and the argument phrases that are dependent on that predicate. Example: the clause The engineers placed sandbags on the levee is an instance of an English argument structure construction made up of the predicate (placed) and the combination of three argument phrases, the Subject (the engineers) plus the Object (sandbags) plus the Oblique (on the levee). The function of the argument structure construction is its semantics -- the participant roles that the referents of the argument phrases are playing in the event -- combined with its information packaging -- the relative salience implied by the Subject -- Object -- Oblique ranking of argument phrases. (Sections 2.2.4, 6.1.1) |
| altLabel | ASC |
| altLabel | argument structure construction |
| altLabel | voice construction |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 1.3 |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 2.2.2 |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 2.2.4 |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 6.1.1 |
| Subtype of | topic--comment 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).
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