| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Sandy said that she was buying the house |
| Definition |
a strategy for the complement of an utterance event in which only the content of an utterance is expressed. Example: in Sandy said that she was buying the house, only the content of Sandy's utterance is reported (contrast with the direct report strategy in Sandy said, I'm buying the house). (Section 18.2.2) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 18.2.2 |
| expressionOf | utterance construction |
| Subtype of | utterance clause alignment |
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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