| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Sam shaved |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Mary and Sue met |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | l-c̜ə-l-k°abe-yt' |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | wa-na-pend-an-a |
| Definition |
the strategy of construing the affected subject participant as a single role in a reflexive or reciprocal event; hence, it is expressed by a single argument phrase in a reflexive construction or a reciprocal construction. Examples: English Sam shaved and Mary and Sue met construe the participants -- Sam, and Mary and Sue, respectively -- as playing a single role in the shaving and meeting events. The single role strategy may also be overtly coded: the Abkhaz Reflexive l-c̜ə-l-k°abe-yt' She washed (herself)is an Intransitive Verb form with the Reflexive prefix c̜ə-, and the Swahili Reciprocal wa-na-pend-an-a they love each otheris an Intransitive Verb form with the Reciprocal suffix -an. (Section 7.2) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 7.2 |
| expressionOf | reciprocal construction |
| expressionOf | reflexive construction |
| Subtype of | recruitment 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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