| Type | construction |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | the fact that the student bought the book |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | [dareka ga doa o tataku] oto |
| Definition |
a construction in which a noun complement (a dependent clause) modifies a noun head. The noun head is not necessarily a (salient) participant in the event denoted by the noun complement. Example: the fact that the student bought the book is an example of a noun complement clause construction: that the student bought the book is the noun complement, and the fact is the head noun. The noun complement clause construction also includes examples such as Japanese [dareka ga doa o tataku] oto the sound of someone knocking on the door, where the head noun oto soundis modified by the noun complement dareka ga doa o tataku someone is knocking on the door. (Section 19.2.4) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 19.2.4 |
| Subtype of | complex sentence |
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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