| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | tall-er |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | tall-est |
| Definition | a free morpheme or affix that expresses the relative degree of the gradable predicative scale applied to the comparee, in comparative and equative constructions. Example: in taller, the suffix -er is a degree marker. In addition to comparative and equative degree markers, some languages have a distinct superlative degree marker, such as -est in English tallest. (Section 17.2.2) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 17.2.2 |
| expressionOf | admodifier |
| expressionOf | comparative construction |
| Subtype of | affixation |
| Superlativ:ADJ-st_ADJ |
| Superlativ:ART_ADJ-(e)st |
| Comparative Construction |
| Superlative Construction |
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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