applicative construction (cxn)

Type construction
http://example.org/cx/hasExample Fred baked me a shepherd's pie
Definition a construction describing an event in which a participant other than the P participant is coded as object -- that is, a non-P participant is salient enough to be expressed as a core argument phrase, specifically object. Example: Fred baked me a shepherd's pie, in which Fred baking the pie is the base event, encodes a non-participant, namely the recipient of the shepherd's pie, as object. (Sections 9.1, 9.3)
See section (in Croft 2022) 9.1
See section (in Croft 2022) 9.3
Subtype of nonbasic voice

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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