| Type | construction |
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| http://example.org/cx/hasExample |
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| Definition | a construction that has the semantic function of assigning different positions on a gradable predicative scale to two referents, the comparee and the standard. The comparative construction therefore consists of three propositions: the predicative scale applies to the comparee, it also applies to the standard, and the comparee exceeds the standard on the scale. Example: The tree is taller than the house is an instance of the comparative construction -- the comparee is the tree, the standard is the house, the gradable comparative scale is height, and the comparee exceeds the standard in height. (Section 17.2.1) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 17.2.1 |
| Subtype of | complex sentence |
| Comparative Construction |
| More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 1) |
| More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 2) |
| More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 3) |
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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