| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | mendicus a me tristis stipem petivit |
| Definition |
a strategy used in the stative complex predicate construction in which the manner (more generally, stative) component is expressed like an adjective (property modifier) in an argument phrase that indexes an argument of the event predicate in the complex predicate construction. Example: in Latin mendicus a me tristis stipem petivit The beggar asked me sadly for a gift, the form tristis sadlyindexes the subject mendicus beggarin case, number and gender--class. (Section 14.2) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 14.2 |
| expressionOf | stative complex predicate |
| Subtype of | encoding strategy |
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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