associative equative (str)

Type strategy
http://example.org/cx/hasExample Tā gēn nǐ yíyàng gāo
Definition a fixed-case strategy in equative constructions in which there is a clause which attributes a gradable predicative scale to the comparee, and the standard is expressed as an oblique argument phrase with a spatial flag with an associative (with) meaning. Example: Mandarin Chinese Tā gēn nǐ yíyàng gāo She is as tall as you is an instance of an associative equative -- the predicate is yíyàng gāo [is] one.manner tall and the standard you uses the flag gēn with. The associative marker may also be a coordinating conjunction. (Section 17.2.4)
See section (in Croft 2022) 17.2.4
expressionOf equative construction
Subtype of fixed-case
Subtype of ordered strategy

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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