postnominal strategy (str)

Type strategy
http://example.org/cx/hasExample I ate the cheesecake [that Carol baked]
Definition a word order strategy for externally headed relative clause constructions in which the relative clause follows the relative clause head. Example: in I ate the cheesecake [that Carol baked], that Carol baked is postnominal because it follows the cheesecake. The postnominal strategy is much more common than the prenominal strategy. (Section 19.2.2)
altLabel postnominal (strategy)
See section (in Croft 2022) 19.2.2
Subtype of externally headed
Subtype of word order

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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