| Type | construction |
|---|---|
| Definition |
a clause construction defined by the function of predicating an object concept of a referent -- that is, asserting what object category the referent belongs to. Example: Ira is a writer is an example of an English predicate nominal construction; it predicates that the referent of Ira belongs to the category of writer. Predicational construction is another term for a predicate nominal construction. Sometimes predicate nominalis used to cover predicational, presentational and equational constructions; we will use it in the narrow sense only. (Sections 1.4, 2.2.5, 10.3) |
| alternative label |
object predication construction
predicational construction |
| See section (in Croft 2022) |
1.4
10.3 2.2.5 |
| Example | Ira is a writer |
| Subtype of | nonprototypical predication 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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