active category (str)

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 me and ya-ʔu you (sg.) are coming expresses the active category. (Section 6.3.3)
altLabel actor category
altLabel agentive (category)
See section (in Croft 2022) 6.3.3

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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