| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | I made him cook dinner |
| Definition | a strategy found in complement clause constructions in which the argument structure construction associated with the complement-taking predicate (CTP) is only partially distinct from the argument structure construction associated with the complement predicate. Example: in I made him cook dinner, the CTP made and the complement predicate cook each has its own Object (him and dinner, respectively), indicating that the argument structure constructions are at least partially distinct; but the necessarily shared participant him is expressed only once, as the Object of the CTP. A partially merged argument structure strategy is typically, but not always, associated with a deranked complement clause construction. A partially merged argument structure strategy always involves the expression of a participant in the complement as an argument phrase dependent on the matrix clause predicate -- or, eventually, the complex predicate made up of the former matrix clause and complement clause predicates. (Section 18.4.1) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 18.4.1 |
| expressionOf | complement clause 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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