attributive phrase (cxn)

Type construction
http://example.org/cx/hasExample a very slow truck
Definition a construction that performs the act of modification. Example: in a very slow truck, the attributive phrase very slow modifies the truck with respect to its speed. The head of an attributive phrase is a modifier. The prototypical attributive phrase is an adjectival phrase. (Sections 2.2.2, 4.1.1)
See section (in Croft 2022) 2.2.2
See section (in Croft 2022) 4.1.1
Subtype of construction

Constructions in the Research Constructicon using this comparative concept

General Postmodifier-of-Adjective Construction
Premodifier-of-Adjective Construction
Adjectival-with-PARTNER Construction
Adjective Construction
More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 1)
More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 2)
More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 3)
Most-/Least-Construction
Premodifier-of-Adjective Construction
Superlative Construction
Superlativ:ADJ-st_ADJ
Superlativ:ADJ-(e)st

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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