indirective alignment (str)

Type strategy
http://example.org/cx/hasExample Randy gave the car to his daughter
http://example.org/cx/hasExample Randy started the car
Definition a system in which the P and T roles are expressed with the same form, but the R role is expressed with a different form. Example: in Randy gave the car to his daughter, the T role (the car) is expressed in the same way as the P role in Randy started the car, and the R role is expressed distinctly, with the flag to. (Section 7.5.2)
altLabel indirective alignment (system)
See section (in Croft 2022) 7.5.2
Subtype of ditransitive 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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