relative clause construction (cxn)

Type construction
http://example.org/cx/hasExample I ate the cheesecake [that Carol baked]
Definition a construction defined by the function of modifying a referent with an action concept. Example: I ate the cheesecake [that Carol baked] is an instance of a relative clause construction: that Carol baked is the relative clause (indicated by brackets), the cheesecake is the relative clause head, and I ate the cheesecake is the matrix clause. There are a wide variety of strategies used for relative clauses, including externally headed, internally headed, adjoined, correlative, noun-modifying clause and verb-coding, as well as participles. (Sections 2.2.5, 19.1)
See section (in Croft 2022) 19.1
See section (in Croft 2022) 2.2.5
Subtype of complex sentence

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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