| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | He washed the car and drove to the party |
| Definition | a strategy in which the temporal sequence of the clauses in a sentence necessarily mirrors the consecutive temporal relation of the events denoted by the clauses. Example: in He washed the car and drove to the party, the temporal order of the clauses He washed the car and drove to the party mirrors the consecutive temporal relation of the events. (Section 15.1.3) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 15.1.3 |
| expressionOf | coordinate 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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