flag, flagging (str)

Type strategy
http://example.org/cx/hasExample the plate on the table
http://example.org/cx/hasExample I dug the hole with a shovel
Definition a strategy for encoding the relation in major propositional acts (modifier--referent, predicate--argument), in which there is a third morpheme that encodes the semantic relation between the two concepts, where the dependent concept (modifier in a modification construction, argument in a clause) is an object concept. Flags subsume adpositions and case affixes. Examples: in the plate on the table, on is a flag, and in I dug the hole with a shovel, with is a flag; both are adpositions. (Sections 4.3, 6.2.2)
altLabel case marker
See section (in Croft 2022) 4.3
See section (in Croft 2022) 6.2.2
expressionOf clause
expressionOf modification construction
Subtype of relational strategy

Constructions in the Research Constructicon using this comparative concept

Adjectival-with-PARTNER Construction

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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