transitivity-based strategy (str)

Type strategy
Definition monoclausal strategies for the causative construction in which the causee in the causative event is coded differently depending on the valency of the corresponding base event. Example: in Turkish, the causee in a causative event is encoded in the Accusative Case if the base event is monovalent (Ali Hasan-t öl-dür-dü Ali killed Hasan [acc]), and in the Dative Case if the base event is bivalent (Dişçi mektub-u müdür-e imzala-t-tí The dentist got the director [dat] to sign the letter). (Section 9.2)
See section (in Croft 2022) 9.2
Example Ali Hasan-t öl-dür-dü
Dişçi mektub-u müdür-e imzala-t-tí
Subtype of causative alignment

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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