| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | gwok mera dit ki kato meri |
| Definition |
a rare strategy for the comparative construction which recruits a coordinate clause construction (making it similar to the conjoined comparative), but where one clause expresses the proposition that the comparee exceeds the standard (making it similar to the exceed comparative), while the other clause expresses that the gradable predicative scale applies to the comparee, or, sometimes, to the standard instead. Example: Acholi gwok mera dit ki kato meri My dog is bigger than yoursis an instance of the conjoined exceed comparative strategy -- the first clause gwok mera dit my dog [is] bigattributes size to the comparee, the dog; the second clause kato meri [it] exceeds yoursexpresses the relation of the comparee to the standard, your dog; and the clauses are conjoined by ki and. (Section 17.2.3) |
| altLabel | conjoined exceed (comparative) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 17.2.3 |
| expressionOf | comparative construction |
| Subtype of | derived-case |
| Subtype of | relative strategy |
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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