| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | áa-bʊak-ıtá ɔldía |
| Definition |
a strategy in which a referent in a possessive relation to a participant in an event (normally in the P role or sometimes the S role of the event) is expressed as an argument of the predicate instead of in a possessive modification construction. Example: in Maasai áa-bʊak-ıtá ɔldía My dog is barking, the portmanteau index áa- indexes the owner of the dog as the object argument of the predicate. (Section 7.5.3) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 7.5.3 |
| expressionOf | possessed argument construction |
| Subtype of | recruitment strategy |
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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