listing contrast (inf)

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http://example.org/cx/hasExample He brought back all the goods, and he also brought back his kinsman Lot and his goods
Definition a subtype of parallel contrast in which the two propositions are identical except for the contrasting parts, and the contrasting parts are construed as belonging in a set relationship -- that is, they are members of a poset. Example: in He brought back all the goods, and he also brought back his kinsman Lot and his goods, the second clause is identical except for the members of the poset {all the goods, his kinsman Lot and his goods}. (Section 11.4.1)
See section (in Croft 2022) 11.4.1
Subtype of parallel contrast

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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