coordinate clause construction (cxn)

Type construction
http://example.org/cx/hasExample Jerry played the guitar and Billy was on drums
Definition a construction in which two events are construed as part of a complex figure information packaging. Example: in Jerry played the guitar and Billy was on drums, Jerry playing guitar and Billy being on drums are combined in a coordinate clause construction that construes the two events as part of a complex whole. Deranked coordinate clause constructions are also called clause chaining, medial verb constructions, or cosubordination. (Section 15.2.1)
altLabel clause chaining
altLabel coordinate clause (construction)
altLabel cosubordination
altLabel medial verb construction
See section (in Croft 2022) 15.2.1
Subtype of complex sentence
Subtype of coordinate construction

Source

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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