| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | molod-aja sosna |
| Definition |
an indexical strategy in which certain categories, typically number and gender--class, but not the category of person, are encoded in the index. Example: in Russian molod-aja sosna young pine, the suffix -aja on molod- youngindexes its referent, also referred to by sosna pine, by number and gender--class (Feminine Singular), and case (Nominative). (Section 4.4.2) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 4.4.2 |
| Subtype of | indexation |
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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