figure-incorporating (str)

Type strategy
http://example.org/cx/hasExample w'ost'aq'ík: a
Definition a strategy for the expression of motion events in which the predication incorporates the semantic type of the figure of motion. Example: in Atsugewi w'ost'aq'ík: a Runny icky material [e.g. guts] is lying on the ground, the verb st'aq' lie [of runny, icky material] incorporates the semantic type of the figure (the guts) as runny, icky material. (Section 14.5)
See section (in Croft 2022) 14.5
expressionOf motion construction
Subtype of encoding strategy

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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