topic--comment construction (cxn)

Type construction
http://example.org/cx/hasExample The bus stopped
Definition the construction that expresses a topic--comment information packaging. Example: The bus stopped is an instance of a topic--comment construction in which stopped is the comment and The bus is the topic. (Sections 2.2.2, 10.1.2, 11.1, 11.2.1)
See section (in Croft 2022) 10.1.2
See section (in Croft 2022) 11.1
See section (in Croft 2022) 11.2.1
See section (in Croft 2022) 2.2.2
Subtype of declarative construction
Subtype of prototypical 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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