| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Douglas y Pedro son igual de altos que María |
| Definition |
a strategy for equative constructions which combines two predicates, one expressing equality of the comparee on the gradable predicative scale, similar to the equal equative, and the other expressing the standard in a structure similar to the relative-based equative. Like the relative-based equative, but unlike the equal equative, the relative equal equative is a derived-case strategy. Example: Spanish Douglas y Pedro son igual de altos que María Douglas and Pedro are as tall as Maríais an instance of the relative equal equative; the matrix predicate is son igual [they] are equaland the deranked de altos describes the scale. (Section 17.2.4) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 17.2.4 |
| expressionOf | equative construction |
| Subtype of | derived-case |
| Subtype of | relative 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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