| Type | construction |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Jack broke the window |
| Definition |
the construction used to express the agent (A role) and the patient (P role) of the predicated bivalent breaking event when the agent is more salient than the patient and the breaking event is a single, completed event. Example: Jack broke the window is an instance of the exemplar (the single |
| altLabel | (mono)transitive (construction) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 6.1.2 |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 6.2.1 |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 7.3.3 |
| Subtype of | basic voice |
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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