scalar model (sem)

Type	meaning
http://example.org/cx/hasExample	He won't eat shrimp, let alone squid
Definition	a range of situations that can be ranked from weakest to strongest -- that is, least informative to most informative, on some relevant scale for the meaning of a sentence. Example: He won't eat shrimp, let alone squid makes sense by invoking a scalar model of things that you would not expect someone to be willing to eat, such that being unwilling to eat shrimp is at the strong, more informative, end of the scalar model, and being unwilling to eat squid is at the weak, less informative end of the scalar model (in a culture where eating squid is considered more repulsive than eating shrimp). (Section 17.3.3)
See section (in Croft 2022)	17.3.3

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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