| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Peter, ich habe ihn heute nicht getroffen |
| Definition |
a strategy for expressing a topic in which the topic referring phrase differs from the expression of a prototypical subject phrase. Example: in German Peter, ich habe ihn heute nicht getroffen Peter, I have not met him today, the topic phrase Peter is in intial position, prosodically separated from the rest of the clause, and there is a pronoun ihn himreferring to Peter in the clause. Not all detached topics have all three of the morphosyntactic properties of the German example; there is a continuum from the prototypical subject/topic phrase and a |
| altLabel | detached (topic phrase) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 11.2.2 |
| expressionOf | topic--comment construction |
| Subtype of | encoding 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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