| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| Definition | a ranking of entities including contextually defined and individually defined entities as well as categories of entities. The Extended Animacy Hierarchy is given below, with the construction for each position on the hierarchy given in square brackets: first/second person [pronoun] < third person [pronoun] < individual [proper noun] < human [common noun] < (nonhuman) animate [common noun] < inanimate [common noun]. The Extended Animacy Hierarchy figures in many grammatical phenomena. (Section 3.1.2) |
| altLabel | Referentiality Hierarchy |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 3.1.2 |
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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