anaphoric-head construction (cxn)

Type construction
http://example.org/cx/hasExample I took a red candy and Greg took a green one
Definition an anaphoric-head construction contains a modifier that modifies a (semantic) head that refers to an individual of the same type as one previously referred to. Example: in I took a red candy and Greg took a green one, a green one is an anaphoric-head construction, referring to a green candy. An anaphoric-head relative clause construction is a special case of the anaphoric-head construction. (Sections 5.4, 19.4)
See section (in Croft 2022) 19.4
See section (in Croft 2022) 5.4
Subtype of modification 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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