anterior deranking (str)

Type strategy
http://example.org/cx/hasExample ojiisanga yamade hataraite obaasanga miseno bano shita
Definition the variant of a deranking strategy in which the deranked clauses precede the clause that is expressed like a simple main clause. Example: Japanese ojiisanga yamade hataraite obaasanga miseno bano shita The old man worked at the mountain, and the old woman tended the store is an instance of anterior deranking -- the suffix -te on hataraite worked indicates that the anterior predicate is deranked. (Section 15.2.3)
See section (in Croft 2022) 15.2.3
expressionOf coordinate clause construction
Subtype of deranked, deranking
Subtype of word order

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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