| Type | meaning |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | I have a pen |
| Definition | a semantic relation between two objects, prototypically ownership, but also including weaker relations such as temporary ownership and physical contiguity. Example: in I have a pen, there is a possession relation between myself and the pen -- I am the possessor and the pen is the possessum. This possession relation could be full ownership, temporary ownership (someone lent it to me), or physical contiguity (I have a pen at hand). Other object--object relations such as body parts, part--whole, and kinship are generally also included under possession relations. (Section 10.4.2) |
| altLabel | possession (relation) |
| altLabel | possessive relation |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 10.4.2 |
| Function of | possessed argument construction |
| Function of | possessive attributive phrase |
| Function of | possessive modification construction |
| Function of | predicational possession construction |
| Function of | presentational possession construction |
| Subtype of | social 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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