| Type | meaning |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | He got into the army by lying about his age |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | He lied about his age and got into the army |
| Definition | the semantic relation between two events where one event accompanies the other event and further characterizes the other event in some way. Example: He got into the army by lying about his age is a figure--ground construal of the means relation in an adverbial clause construction, and He lied about his age and got into the army is a complex figure construal of the relation in a coordinate clause construction. In the figure--ground construal, the accompanying event is construed as the ground. (Section 15.3.1) |
| altLabel | positive circumstantial |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 15.3.1 |
| Function of | means 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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