| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Whether he is right or not, we must support him |
| Definition | a strategy for expressing a concessive conditional construction where the protasis, which specifies the set of conditions for the concessive conditional, invokes the two polar alternatives possible in the scalar model; the apodosis expresses the unexpected opposite of the expected causal relation between either alternative and the outcome, and so implies the same outcome no matter what. Example: Whether he is right or not, we must support him uses the alternative concessive conditional strategy -- either he is right or he is wrong, and under either of those conditions that make up the scalar model, we must support him. (Section 17.3.3) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 17.3.3 |
| expressionOf | concessive conditional construction |
| 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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