modification construction (cxn)

Type construction
http://example.org/cx/hasExample my mother's book
Definition a construction that consists of the referent expression and an attributive phrase (or phrases) that are dependent on that referent expression. Example: the referring phrase my mother's book is an instance of an English modification construction made up of the referent expression (book) plus the Possessive attributive phrase my mother's. (Section 2.2.4, Chapters 4--5)
altLabel (referent) modification construction
See section (in Croft 2022) 2.2.4
See section (in Croft 2022) 4
See section (in Croft 2022) 5
Subtype of referring phrase

Constructions in the Research Constructicon using this comparative concept

Adjectival-with-PARTNER Construction
Adjective Construction
Most-/Least-Construction
Superlative Construction
Superlative 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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