| Type | meaning |
|---|---|
| Definition | an event in which one participant acts on a second participant, but the change that occurs to the second participant is at least partly independent of the force transmitted by the first participant. Examples: interaction events include pursuit events, events involving two agents such as ordering someone (to do something) or supervising someone, and events involving an agent and an event, state, social institution, and so on, such as managing a budget, avoiding situations, or conforming to institutional standards. (Section 7.3) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 7.3 |
| Function of | interaction verb |
| Subtype of | social 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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