| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | I ate the cheesecake [that Carol baked] |
| Definition | a relative clause construction in which the relative clause head is expressed as an argument of the matrix clause predicate. Example: in I ate the cheesecake [that Carol baked], that Carol baked is an externally headed relative clause; the relative clause head is the cheesecake, which is the Direct Object of the matrix predicate ate. The externally headed strategy is by far the most common strategy for relative clause constructions. Externally headed relative clauses may be prenominal, postnominal, or extraposed. Externally headed relative clauses may use a gap, pronoun-retention, or relative pronoun strategy. (Section 19.2.2) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 19.2.2 |
| expressionOf | relative clause construction |
| Subtype of | encoding 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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