| Type | meaning |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Nancy is glad that Joe won the election |
| Definition | an evaluative event in which an evaluative judgment about a proposition expressed by the complement of the commentative event is made, and there is a positive epistemic stance by the speaker toward the proposition. Example: in Nancy is glad that Joe won the election, the commentative predicate is glad expresses Nancy's evaluation of Joe's winning the election, and also presupposes that the speaker believes that Joe indeed won the election. (Section 18.2.2) |
| altLabel | commentative (event) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 18.2.2 |
| Function of | commentative construction |
| Subtype of | evaluative 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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