adverbial clause construction (cxn)

Type construction
http://example.org/cx/hasExample I left early because I was bored
Definition a complex sentence construction with a figure--ground construal / information packaging of the relation between the events denoted by the two clauses. An adverbial clause construction is made up of a matrix clause and an adverbial dependent clause. Example: I left early because I was bored is an instance of an adverbial clause construction. (Section 15.3.1)
altLabel adverbial clause (construction)
altLabel adverbial subordinate construction
See section (in Croft 2022) 15.3.1
Subtype of complex sentence

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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