appositive modification (inf)

Type information packaging
http://example.org/cx/hasExample The angry young men left the party
Definition an information packaging function in which the modifying stative concept does not narrow the set of possible referents of the object concept it modifies in a referring phrase; it simply adds a further description of the referent. Example: in The angry young men left the party, angry is an appositive modifier in the context in which it is adding a further description to the young men leaving the party, rather than specifying a subset of the young men, as with restrictive modification. (Section 14.3)
altLabel nonrestrictive modification
See section (in Croft 2022) 14.3
Function of apposition
Subtype of subcategorizing

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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