| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | mti huu ni mrefu ku-shinda ule |
| Definition |
a fixed-case strategy in comparative constructions in which there are two predicates, one which attributes a gradable predicative scale to the comparee, and another which asserts that the comparee exceeds the standard on that scale. Example: Swahili mti huu ni mrefu ku-shinda ule This tree is taller than that (tree)is an instance of the exceed comparative: the first part mti huu ni mrefu this tree is bigattributes a degree of height to this tree, and the second part ku-shinda ule exceed [asserts that this tree exceeds that tree in height. (Section 17.2.2) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 17.2.2 |
| expressionOf | comparative construction |
| Subtype of | fixed-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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