cognate head-dependent strategy (str)

Type strategy
http://example.org/cx/hasExample ʔízí ʃeeʃi ʃéék'k'-á-ne
Definition a strategy for an argument complex predicate in which the verb and the noun (argument phrase) are phonologically related (and sometimes even identical). Example: in Maale ʔízí ʃeeʃi ʃéék'k'-á-ne He is urinating, ʃeeʃi urine and ʃéék'k' urinate are morphologically related as well as semantically extremely close. (Section 13.6)
altLabel cognate object (strategy)
See section (in Croft 2022) 13.6
expressionOf argument complex predicate
Subtype of encoding 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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