overtly headed strategy (str)

Type strategy
http://example.org/cx/hasExample I took a red candy and Greg took a green one
Definition a strategy for the anaphoric-head construction in which there is an overt morpheme that functions as the head. Example: in I took a red candy and Greg took a green one, a green one is an example of the overtly headed strategy for the anaphoric-head construction, because one serves as an anaphoric head (with respect to type identity) in the construction. (Section 5.4)
altLabel overt anaphoric head strategy
altLabel overt head strategy
See section (in Croft 2022) 5.4
expressionOf anaphoric-head construction
expressionOf free modification construction
Subtype of overt coding, overtly coded

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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