adnominal possessive strategy (str)

Type strategy
http://example.org/cx/hasExample mine woaroa-n woal-o war
Definition a strategy for the presentational possession construction in which the possessor is expressed not by an argument phrase but with a possessive modification construction. Example: Mokilese mine woaroa-n woal-o war [exist clf-3sg man-that canoe] That man has a canoe [lit. That man's canoe exists] is an instance of the adnominal possessive strategy. The adnominal possessive strategy is an instance of the internal possessor strategy. (Section 10.4.2)
altLabel adnominal possessive (strategy)
altLabel genitive strategy
See section (in Croft 2022) 10.4.2
expressionOf presentational possession construction
Subtype of encoding strategy

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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