| Type | meaning |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | It's raining |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | The wind is blowing |
| Definition | a situation type describing the weather that is typically construed as thetic. Examples: It's raining and The wind is blowing are expressions of weather. Weather is sometimes described as an event without any (salient) participants. Its tendency to be construed as thetic is attributed to the fact that weather is difficult to divide into a topic and a comment and be construed as topic--comment information packaging. (Sections 11.3.1, 11.3.3) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 11.3.1 |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 11.3.3 |
| Subtype of | qualitative 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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