| Type | construction |
|---|---|
| Definition | a nominal modification construction that is not an anchoring construction, in that the object modifier is only type identifiable, the modifier--head combination refers to a subclass of a broader class, and the head cannot be identified via its relation to the modifier. Example: women's magazine is an instance of a typifying construction: women does not refer to a specific set of women; the phrase as a whole denotes a particular subclass of magazines; and the referent of magazine cannot be identified by the modifier women's. (Section 5.2.1) |
| alternative label |
non-anchoring (nominal modification) construction
typifying (nominal modification) construction |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 5.2.1 |
| Example | women's magazine |
| Subtype of | 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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