figure-ground spatial relation (sem)

Type meaning
http://example.org/cx/hasExample the bicycle in the garage
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)
altLabel figure--ground spatial relation
altLabel location relation
altLabel spatial figure--ground relation
See section (in Croft 2022) 10.4.1
See section (in Croft 2022) 4.1.4
Function of locative modification construction
Function of predicational location construction
Function of presentational location construction
Subtype of spatial event

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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