| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | las chicas cantab-an |
| Definition |
a strategy for encoding the relation in major propositional acts (modifier--referent, predicate--argument), in which there is a third morpheme that refers to the referent. The third morpheme is called an index. Example: Spanish las chicas cantaban the girls were singinguses indexation to express the relation between the singing and the singers (the girls), with the 3rd person plural suffix -an. Indexation usually expresses the categories of person, number, and/or gender--class. Since personal pronouns usually express only those categories, personal pronouns are arguably also indexes. Often the referent/argument is left unexpressed when the indexical strategy is employed -- hence, the referent/argument is expressed only by the index. Indexical strategies include person indexation, nonperson indexation, and classifiers. (Sections 3.3.2, 4.4, 6.2.2) |
| altLabel | agreement |
| altLabel | indexation |
| altLabel | indexical strategy |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 3.3.2 |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 4.4 |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 6.2.2 |
| expressionOf | clause |
| expressionOf | modification construction |
| 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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