noun-modifying clause strategy (str)

Type strategy
http://example.org/cx/hasExample [gakusei ga katta] hon
http://example.org/cx/hasExample [gakusei ga hon o katta] zizitu
Definition the strategy of employing the same morphosyntactic structure for both the noun complement clause construction and the relative clause construction. Example: Japanese uses the noun-modifying clause strategy -- the same externally headed strategy is used for both the relative clause construction ([gakusei ga katta] hon the book that the student bought) and the noun complement clause construction ([gakusei ga hon o katta] zizitu the fact that the student bought the book). (Section 19.2.4)
altLabel noun-modifying clause (strategy)
See section (in Croft 2022) 19.2.4
expressionOf noun complement clause construction
Subtype of recruitment strategy

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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