adjective (cxn)

Type construction
http://example.org/cx/hasExample a very new book
Definition the head of an attributive phrase that denotes a property. Example: the word new in a very new book is an adjective -- it is a property concept that is the head of the attributive phrase very new and modifies book. (Sections 2.2.3, 4.1.1)
See section (in Croft 2022) 2.2.3
See section (in Croft 2022) 4.1.1
Subtype of modifier
Subtype of prototypical construction

Constructions in the Research Constructicon using this comparative concept

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

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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