| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Randy is older than Tom (is) |
| Definition | a derived-case comparative strategy that consists of two clauses which assert that the gradable predicative scale applies to the comparee and the standard, but the second clause uses the zero copula strategy for predicate identity, and the conjunction is a particle with diverse etymological origins. Example: Randy is older than Tom (is) is an instance of the particle strategy: the clause Randy is older is followed by the particle than which introduces the standard phrase Tom without its own predicate (only an optional auxiliary is). (Section 17.2.2) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 17.2.2 |
| expressionOf | comparative construction |
| Subtype of | derived-case |
| Subtype of | independent strategy |
| Comparative Construction |
| More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 1) |
| More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 2) |
| More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 3) |
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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