| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | ó-ma-ya-kiye |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | ya-ʔu |
| Definition |
the morphosyntactic category in the active alignment system that co-expresses some S roles -- in particular, the S role of walk-- and the A role. Example: in Lakhota, the index ya- you (sg.)in ó-ma-ya-kiye you help/helped meand ya-ʔu you (sg.) are comingexpresses the active category. (Section 6.3.3) |
| altLabel | actor category |
| altLabel | agentive (category) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 6.3.3 |
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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