subcategorizing (inf)

Type information packaging
Definition a subtype of modification supporting the basic categorizing function of common nouns. Usually performed by property concepts. (Sections 4.1.1, 4.1.2)
altLabel typifying
See section (in Croft 2022) 4.1.1
See section (in Croft 2022) 4.1.2
Function of binominal lexeme
Function of typifying construction
Subtype of modification

Constructions in the Research Constructicon using this comparative concept

Superlativ:ADJ-(e)st
Superlativ:ADJ-st_ADJ
Superlativ:ADJ-st_ADJ
Superlativ:ART_ADJ-(e)st

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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