balanced, balancing (str)

Type strategy
http://example.org/cx/hasExample The robins drank water and the juncos ate fennel seeds
Definition a strategy in which the predicate in a complex sentence construction or a complex predicate construction recruits the predicate construction in a simple predication, inflections and all. Example: The robins drank water and the juncos ate fennel seeds is an instance of a balanced coordinate clause construction: drank and ate are in the same form as in the simple predications The robins drank water and The juncos ate fennel seeds. (Sections 14.2, 15.2.3)
See section (in Croft 2022) 14.2
See section (in Croft 2022) 15.2.3
Subtype of clause alignment

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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