| Type | meaning |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | The guests followed one another into the room |
| Definition |
an event type in which one participant acts upon another participant, and the second participant acts on a third participant in the same way, and so on. That is, each participant in the chain is both the initiator and endpoint of transmission of force for the same type of action -- except the first in the chain, who is only an initiator, and the last, who is only an endpoint. Example: in The guests followed one another into the room, each guest is a follower and a |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 7.2 |
| Function of | chaining construction |
| Subtype of | event |
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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