| Type | meaning |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | However much advice you give him, he does exactly what he wants to do |
| Definition | a causal relation between a set of events that are associated with a scalar model on the one hand, and another event, such that the other event would occur under the entire range of conditions described in the scalar model associated with the first set of events. Example: However much advice you give him, he does exactly what he wants to do is an instance of the concessive conditional relation and construction -- the protasis However much advice you give him introduces a scalar model of your giving him a full range of amounts of advice; and the apodosis he does exactly what he wants to do describes the event that occurs or would occur under any of those conditions. The speaker has a neutral epistemic stance toward the range of events associated with the scalar model. The apodosis has an unexpected causal relation with respect to the set of events that make up the protasis. A concessive conditional may express a content, epistemic, or speech act causal relation. (Section 17.3.3) |
| altLabel | conditional concessive relation |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 17.3.3 |
| Function of | concessive conditional construction |
| Subtype of | event relation |
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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