| Type | construction |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | She watered the plants before she ate lunch |
| Definition | a clause that is a dependent of a matrix clause in a complex sentence construction. Adverbial clauses, complement clauses, and relative clauses are all examples of dependent clauses. Example: in She watered the plants before she ate lunch, before she ate lunch is an instance of an (adverbial) dependent clause. Dependent clauses are often, but not always, subordinate clauses. (Section 15.1.2) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 15.1.2 |
| Subtype of | 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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