degree (sem)

Type meaning
http://example.org/cx/hasExample very long
Definition for scalar concepts, a value on the scale that may be expressed by a distinct word. Example: in very long, the admodifier very indicates that the value on the scale of length is beyond the normal value implicit in the word long. (Section 2.2.2)
See section (in Croft 2022) 2.2.2
Function of admodifier

Constructions in the Research Constructicon using this comparative concept

More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 1)
More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 2)
General Postmodifier-of-Adjective Construction
More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 1)
Premodifier-of-Adjective Construction

Source

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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