| Type | construction |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Kerry has a laptop |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Había muchas chicas de mi edad y más jóvenes |
| Definition |
a presentational information packaging of the possession relation in which a possessum is introduced into the discourse, anchored by the possessor; and the construction expressing this function. Example: in Kerry has a laptop, the laptop is introduced into the discourse, but anchored to Kerry by the possession relation that holds between Kerry and the laptop. More grammaticalized versions of this strategy include Spanish Había muchas chicas de mi edad y más jóvenes There were many girls of my age and younger. (Section 10.4.2) |
| altLabel | have possession |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 10.4.2 |
| Subtype of | possession construction |
| Subtype of | presentational 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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