| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | aufwechen |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | aufwachen |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | kill |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | die |
| Definition |
a strategy in which a noncausal event and its counterpart causal event are expressed by forms of equal morphological structure. Example: in German, the causal event predicate aufwechen wake (someone) upand the noncausal event predicate aufwachen wake upare expressed by morphologically related forms, but neither form is morphologically more complex than the other. In English, the suppletive causal event predicate kill vs. noncausal event predicate die are also analyzed as instances of the equipollent strategy. The term equipollentis used for the same strategy in other constructions as well. (Section 6.3.4) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 6.3.4 |
| Subtype of | system |
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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