| Type | construction |
|---|---|
| Definition | a construction defined by the function of referring to an action concept. Example: a variety of strategies are used for complements, including the English Gerund, as in Hiking in Canyonlands (is fun), and the English Finite Complement, as in (Frieda thinks) that Janet won't come to the party. (Sections 2.2.5, 18.2.1) |
| alternative label | complement (dependent clause) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) |
18.2.1
2.2.5 |
| Example |
Hiking in Canyonlands is fun
Frieda thinks that Janet won't come to the party |
| Subtype of |
argument phrase
dependent clause |
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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