| Type | meaning |
|---|---|
| Definition | an event in which an evaluative judgment is made about the truth of the proposition expressed in its complement. Evaluative events may assume different epistemic stances toward the proposition expressed in their complement. Commentative events assume a positive epistemic stance; hoping and fearing events assume a neutral epistemic stance; and wishing events assume a negative epistemic stance. (Section 18.2.2) |
| altLabel | evaluative (event) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 18.2.2 |
| Function of | evaluative construction |
| Subtype of | eventive participant 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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