| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| Definition | an implicational hierarchy of events that have other events as participants (the complement events), which appears to govern a wide range of strategies for complement clause constructions, including balancing vs. deranking (Section 18.3.1), the grammaticalization of purpose adverbial clauses into deranked complements (Section 18.3.2), the expression of the participants of the complement-taking predicate and complement events (Section 18.4.1), and the use of logophoric constructions (Section 18.4.2). The Binding Hierarchy is described in detail in Givón (1980) and Cristofaro (2003); the latter calls it the Complement Deranking -- Argument Hierarchy. The version used here is a slightly revised version of Cristofaro's hierarchy: utterance, propositional attitude, knowledge < evaluative, perception < desiderative, manipulative < modal, phasal. (Section 18.3.1) |
| altLabel | Complement Deranking-Argument Hierarchy |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 18.3.1 |
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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