adjectival phrase (cxn)

Type construction
http://example.org/cx/hasExample a very large balloon
Definition an attributive phrase whose head denotes a property concept. Example: in a very large balloon, very large is an adjectival phrase; the head large denotes a property concept. An adjectival phrase is the prototypical attributive phrase, and its head is an adjective. (Section 2.2.3)
altLabel adjective attributive phrase
See section (in Croft 2022) 2.2.3
Subtype of attributive phrase
Subtype of prototypical construction

Constructions in the Research Constructicon using this comparative concept

General Postmodifier-of-Adjective Construction
Premodifier-of-Adjective Construction
Adjectival-with-PARTNER Construction
Adjective Construction
More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 1)
Most-/Least-Construction
Superlative Construction
Superlativ:ADJ-st_ADJ

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).

You can consult this entry in the original database here.

Back to list of Comparative Concepts