| Type | meaning |
|---|---|
| Definition |
the role that a particular participant performs in an event -- specifically, what the participant does, or has done to them, in the course of the event. Example: in the eating event, there is an eaterparticipant role and a foodparticipant role, and different things happen with the eaterand the foodin the eating event. (Sections 6.1.1, 6.1.2) |
| altLabel | Frame Element |
| altLabel | microrole |
| altLabel | participant |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 6.1.1 |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 6.1.2 |
| Function of | argument phrase |
| Function of | noun complement clause construction |
| Role of | 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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