| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | ekiso [John kyeyattisa enkoko] |
| Definition |
a strategy for the expression of the semantic role of the relative clause head in the event denoted by the relative clause of an externally headed relative clause construction, in which the predicate of the relative clause uses different voice forms in order to specify the semantic role of the shared participant in the relative clause event. Example: in Luganda ekiso [John kyeyattisa enkoko] the knife with which John killed the chicken, the predicate kyeyattisa killedcontains the instrumental applicative suffix -is that indicates that the relative clause head ekiso knifedenotes the instrument participant in the killing event. Comrie (2003b) restricts verb-coding strategies to languages which use voice forms that are exclusively found in relative clause constructions (and thus would exclude the Luganda example); we follow the broader definition introduced in Keenan (1972). (Section 19.3) |
| altLabel | verb-coding |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 19.3 |
| expressionOf | relative clause construction |
| 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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