| Type | meaning |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | If you press this button, the door will open |
| Definition | a semantic relation between two events that involves a logical material implication relation between their corresponding propositions, some type of causal relation between the corresponding events, and non-positive epistemic stance. Example: If you press this button, the door will open is an instance of the conditional relation and construction. The causally antecedent proposition is the protasis, and the causally consequent proposition is the apodosis. A conditional may express a content, epistemic or speech act causal relation. (Section 17.3.1) |
| altLabel | conditional (relation) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 17.3.1 |
| Function of | 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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