| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | She picked up the pieces and dumped them in the wastebasket |
| Definition | the combination of clauses in complex sentence constructions, and of coordinands in coordinate constructions (whether the coordinands are clauses or not), by an overt free or clitic morpheme. Example: She picked up the pieces and dumped them in the wastebasket is an instance of syndetic clause coordination, due to the presence of the coordinator and. Syndetic coordination may be monosyndetic or bisyndetic. (Section 15.2.2) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 15.2.2 |
| expressionOf | complex sentence |
| Subtype of | overt coding, overtly coded |
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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