| Type | meaning |
|---|---|
| Definition | a subtype of the conditional relation in which an event causes another event generically or habitually. Example: If/When/Whenever a dog starts barking, I run away is an instance of a generic conditional relation and construction -- it doesn't describe a specific instance of a dog barking causing me to run away; instead, it describes a general or habitual pattern of this causal sequence of events. (Section 17.3.1) |
| alternative label | generic conditional (relation) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 17.3.1 |
| Function of | generic conditional construction |
| Example | If/When/Whenever a dog starts barking, I run away |
| Subtype of | conditional 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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