adverbializer (str)

Type strategy
Definition a morpheme that overtly expresses the semantic relation in an adverbial clause construction. Example: in I left the party because I was tired, because is the adverbializer. An adverbial clause construction with an adverbializer is an example of syndetic subordination. If the morpheme is affixed to a predicate, it is not an adverbializer but an overt marker of deranked status. (Section 15.3.2)
See section (in Croft 2022) 15.3.2
expressionOf adverbial clause construction
Example I left the party because I was tired
Subtype of conjunction

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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