conditional deranking (str)

Type strategy
http://example.org/cx/hasExample dem na ma à o ko
http://example.org/cx/hasExample nyeu on na te wakh on na ma ko
Definition a system where a same-subject reference tracking construction uses a deranking strategy, whereas the different-subject reference tracking construction uses a balanced strategy. Example: Wolof dem na ma à o ko I went and called him [same-subject] uses a Serial Marker à and a deranked Subjunctive verb form o; nyeu on na te wakh on na ma ko He came and I told (it to) him uses the balanced construction with the simple verb form, the Past Tense on and the Indicative Marker na. (Section 16.3)
altLabel conditional deranking (system)
altLabel conditionally deranked
See section (in Croft 2022) 16.3
Subtype of reference tracking system

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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