property concept (sem)

Type meaning
Definition a concept belonging to a semantic class of relational, 1-dimensional, usually scalar, and usually stable concepts. Examples: age, height, shape, and so on are property concepts -- they are defined on a 1-dimensional scale, and many of them are stable properties of the object they apply to. (Sections 2.1, and 4.1.1, which includes an enumeration of types of property concepts)
altLabel property
altLabel quality
See section (in Croft 2022) 2.1
See section (in Croft 2022) 4.1.1
Function of adjectival phrase
Function of predicate adjectival construction
Function of property referring phrase
Subtype of qualitative event

Constructions in the Research Constructicon using this comparative concept

Superlativ:ADJ-(e)st
Superlativ:ADJ-st_ADJ
Superlativ:ADJ-st_ADJ
Superlativ:ART_ADJ-(e)st
Adjectival-with-PARTNER Construction
Adjective Construction
General Postmodifier-of-Adjective Construction
More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 1)
Most-/Least-Construction
Premodifier-of-Adjective Construction
Superlative Construction

Source

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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