associative construction (cxn)

Type construction
http://example.org/cx/hasExample Góša pr´ijéxal´i!
Definition a construction in which there is reference to an individual and a group associated with that individual. Attention has been focused on the associative construction strategy in which an index refers to not just the referent expressed in a referring phrase in the same construction, but also a group associated with that referent. Example: in the Talitsk dialect of Russian, in Góša pr´ijéxal´i! Gosha and his family have arrived! the plural predicate pr´ijéxal´i they have arrived, combined with the referring phrase Góša Gosha, expresses that the subject referent is Gosha plus an associated group -- namely, his family. (Section 4.4.4)
See section (in Croft 2022) 4.4.4
Subtype of nominal phrase

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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