core argument phrase (cxn)

Type construction
http://example.org/cx/hasExample Sally threw the letter into the wastebasket
http://example.org/cx/hasExample The letter was thrown into the wastebasket
Definition the subject and object phrases in a clause, generally considered to refer to the more central participants in an event. Example: in Sally threw the letter into the wastebasket, Sally and the letter are the core argument phrases; in The letter was thrown into the wastebasket, only the letter is a core argument phrase. (Section 6.1.1)
See section (in Croft 2022) 6.1.1
Subtype of argument 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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