| Type | construction |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | I wonder who is going to the party |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | John wondered whether he would go to the party |
| Definition | a complement that expresses a proposition which contains information that is unknown. Interrogative complements commonly occur in certain types of propositional attitude complement clause constructions. Examples: in I wonder who is going to the party or John wondered whether he would go to the party, who is going to the party and whether he would go to the party are interrogative complements. Interrogative complements are often found in the objective construal of epistemic modality. (Sections 12.3.4, 18.3.1) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 12.3.4 |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 18.3.1 |
| Subtype of | complement |
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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