| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Voilà la sirène | qui hurle |
| Definition |
a strategy found for the expression of thetic constructions. In a split structure, the information normally expressed as the comment or predicate in a topic--comment construction may be expressed in a different form, usually some sort of subordinate clause-like form. The information normally expressed as the topic in the topic--comment construction may be expressed in a different form, usually with a presentational construction; or both types of information are expressed differently. Example: in French Voilà la sirène | qui hurle [There's a siren | that's wailing] The SIREN is wailing, the interruption thetic construction expresses the participant (the siren) in a presentational construction, and expresses the event in a relative clause construction. (Section 11.3.2) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 11.3.2 |
| Subtype of | subject-predicate alignment |
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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