switch-reference system (str)

Type strategy
http://example.org/cx/hasExample nono imai-te-pa ai mene-a-te pai aʔate-pa
Definition an absolute deranking system where the same-subject and different-subject reference tracking constructions systematically use different deranked constructions. Example: in Tauya nono imai-te-pa ai mene-a-te pai aʔate-pa... She carried the child and came and stayed, they hit [= killed] the pigs and... imai-te-pa [(3sg)-carry-get-SS] is a deranked predicate form with the same-subject deranking morpheme -pa since the following subject is also she, and mene-a-te [stay-3sg-DS] is a deranked predicate form with the different-subject deranking morpheme -te since the following subject switches to they. (Section 16.4)
See section (in Croft 2022) 16.4
expressionOf reference tracking construction
Subtype of absolute deranking system

Source

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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