| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | ó o hian oí dúdúdú |
| Definition |
a strategy in which a concept is expressed by a phonologically distinctive word, in which there is argued to be some sort of sound-symbolic relationship between the phonological form and its meaning. A common function for which ideophones are used is as the stative component of a stative complex predicate; they are probably next most commonly used as property predications or as property modifiers in referring phrases. Example: in Emai ó o hian oí dúdúdú He cuts it [wood] energetically, dúdúdú energeticallyis an ideophone that describes the manner of cutting using a reduplicated form; reduplication is a common characteristic of ideophones. (Section 14.4) |
| altLabel | ideophone strategy |
| altLabel | mimetics |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 14.4 |
| 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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