| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Jerry saw the bluebird on Sunday |
| Definition | a strategy for expressing the categories of subject (S), verb (V), and object (O) in a transitive construction, and subject in an intransitive construction. Some linguists use A and P instead of S and O, respectively, in describing the basic word order of transitive constructions. Basic word order is distinguished from nonbasic word orders in terms of information packaging (basic word order represents topic--comment information packaging); less structural coding; and higher token frequency. Example: the basic word order of English is SVO, as in Jerry saw the bluebird on Sunday. Some linguists analyze basic word order in terms of the pair of binary orders subject--verb and object--verb. Sometimes the order of oblique phrases is included; if so, the oblique phrase is abbreviated X; English is SVOX. (Section 6.2.2) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 6.2.2 |
| expressionOf | clause |
| Subtype of | word order |
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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