experiencer-oriented strategy (str)

Type strategy
http://example.org/cx/hasExample I fear dogs
Definition a strategy for an experiential construction in which the experiencer argument phrase is co-expressed with the subject argument phrase of a transitive or intransitive construction. Example: the argument structure construction found in I fear dogs, with the experiencer argument phrase I co-expressed with the prototypical subject in English, is an instance of the experiencer-oriented strategy. (Section 7.4)
altLabel experiencer-subject strategy
See section (in Croft 2022) 7.4
Subtype of experiential alignment

Source

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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