| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Kofi naki Amba kiri |
| Definition |
a strategy for expressing an eventive complex predicate with two (or more) elements, each expressing an event, without overt coding of the relation between the two elements via a third linking morpheme. The serial verb strategy -- that is, expression of an eventive complex predicate without an overt linking morpheme -- combines with strategies for expressing the two event elements involving contiguity, incorporation, and locus of inflection. Example: Sranan Kofi naki Amba kiri Kofi killed [lit.contains two event elements, nakihit kill] Amba hitand kiri kill, without any linking morpheme. (Section 13.2.2) |
| altLabel | serial verb (strategy) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 13.2.2 |
| expressionOf | motion 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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