| Type | meaning |
|---|---|
| Definition | a spatial relation that holds between two objects such that the ground object functions as a reference point for locating the figure. Example: the bicycle in the garage is a locative modification construction that expresses a figure--ground spatial relation between the bicycle and the garage. (Sections 4.1.4, 10.4.1) |
| alternative label |
figure--ground spatial relation
location relation spatial figure--ground relation |
| See section (in Croft 2022) |
10.4.1
4.1.4 |
| Function of |
locative modification construction
predicational location construction presentational location construction |
| Example | the bicycle in the garage |
| Subtype of | spatial event |
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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