| Type | construction |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Sally's calendar |
| Definition | the nominal modifier construction that expresses a possession relation such that the possessor is the modifier and the possessum is the head (i.e. is the referent expression). Example: Sally's calendar is an instance of possession -- the calendar could be one that she owns, one that she gave me, one that she is holding in a photo of people with calendars, one that she designed or made, one with photos of her, and so on. Many languages have two morphosyntactically distinct possessive modification constructions, an alienable possession construction and an inalienable possession construction (or constructions). (Section 4.1.4) |
| altLabel | attributive possession construction |
| altLabel | possessive (modification) construction |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 4.1.4 |
| Subtype of | nominal modification construction |
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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