| Type | meaning |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Your cat is bigger than my dog |
| Definition | in a comparative construction or equative construction, the referent whose position on the gradable predicative scale is specified relative to the position of the standard on the predicative scale. Example: in the comparative construction Your cat is bigger than my dog, the cat is the comparee -- it is asserted to exceed the dog on the scale of size. (Sections 17.2.1, 17.2.4) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 17.2.1 |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 17.2.4 |
| Role of | comparative relation |
| Role of | equative relation |
| Comparative Construction |
| More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 1) |
| More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 2) |
| More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 3) |
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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