S role (sem)

Type meaning
http://example.org/cx/hasExample Jack ran
http://example.org/cx/hasExample Jack died
Definition the one central participant role in a monovalent event. Example: in Jack ran or Jack died, Jack plays the S role in the running and dying events, respectively. It is not entirely clear what event best serves as the exemplar monovalent event for defining the S role (Sections 6.3.1, 6.3.3)
altLabel S (role)
See section (in Croft 2022) 6.3.1
See section (in Croft 2022) 6.3.3
Function of S phrase
Role of change of state event
Subtype of undergoer

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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