monosyndetic (str)

Type strategy
http://example.org/cx/hasExample Iraqw and English
http://example.org/cx/hasExample Jerry, Bobby, and Phil
http://example.org/cx/hasExample Kwermuhl nee Tlawi nee Dongobesh nee Haydom nee Daudi
Definition a strategy used in syndetic coordination where there are fewer coordinators than coordinands. Example: the simplest example, which gives rise to the term, is one coordinator in a construction with two or more coordinands, as in Iraqw and English or Jerry, Bobby, and Phil. The term has been extended to coordination with multiple coordinands and one less coordinator than coordinand, as in Iraqw Kwermuhl nee Tlawi nee Dongobesh nee Haydom nee Daudi Kwermuhl, Tlawi, Dongobesh, Haydom, and Daudi [place names]. (Section 15.2.2)
See section (in Croft 2022) 15.2.2
expressionOf coordinate construction
Subtype of syndetic

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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