nonbasic voice (cxn)

Type construction
http://example.org/cx/hasExample The salmon were eaten by grizzlies
Definition an argument structure construction that does not conform to the prototypical parallel ranking of participant role and argument salience. Example: The salmon were eaten by grizzlies is an instance of a nonbasic voice construction. Nonbasic voice constructions include the passive--inverse voice construction, the antipassive construction, the causative construction, and the applicative construction. (Section 8.1)
See section (in Croft 2022) 8.1
Subtype of clause
Subtype of nonprototypical 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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