| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | ni-ti:citl |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | ni-cho:ca |
| Definition |
the strategy of recruiting what was originally the action predication construction for nonprototypical predication. It is presumed that an originally action predication construction lacks an auxiliary, and it expresses certain grammatical categories, in particular person indexation and negation. Example: Nahuatl ni-ti:citl [I am a doctorrecruits the action predication construction for object predication; cf. ni-cho:ca [ I am crying. (Section 10.2) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 10.2 |
| expressionOf | nonprototypical predication construction |
| Subtype of | zero coding, zero 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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