| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Reaching the top of the hill, Ron found a stone monument |
| Definition | a strategy in which the predicate in a complex sentence or a complex predicate construction does not recruit the predicate construction in a simple predication, in contrast to the balanced strategy. Instead, the deranked predicate either: (i) lacks the inflections of the predicate; (ii) uses different inflections from the predicate; (iii) has an affix that overtly codes its relation to the other predicate; or some combination of these three possibilities. Example: in Reaching the top of the hill, Ron found a stone monument, the predicate reaching is a deranked form: it lacks verbal inflections and is overtly coded by the suffix -ing. Deranked predicate forms are also called infinitives, gerunds, participles, verbal nouns, masdars, action nominals, and nominalizations. (Sections 12.4.2, 14.2, 15.2.3) |
| altLabel | gerund |
| altLabel | infinitive |
| altLabel | masdars |
| altLabel | nominalization |
| altLabel | verbal noun |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 12.4.2 |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 14.2 |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 15.2.3 |
| Subtype of | clause alignment |
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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