| Type | information packaging |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | The bus stopped |
| Definition |
the information packaging in which one concept (the comment) is predicated about another concept which is referred to (the topic). Example: The bus stopped is an instance of a topic--comment construction in which stopped is the comment and The bus is the topic. Topic--comment information packaging is basically synonymous with predication; the term topic--commenthighlights the fact that a predication is a predication about a referent. (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 |
| Function of | topic--comment construction |
| Subtype of | declarative |
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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