| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | mae car yma |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Mae'r car yma |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | On the table was a large bowl |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | The large bowl was on the table |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | There's a snake in the back yard |
| Definition |
a strategy for the presentational location construction (and presentational constructions in general) which recruits the predicational location construction. The predicational locative strategy has a fixed-order subtype, where the word order of figure phrase and locative phrase remains the same. Example: Welsh mae car yma There is a car herehas the same word order as the predicational locative Mae'r car yma The car is here. The predicational locative strategy also has a reverse-order subtype, where the word order is reversed so that the locative phrase precedes the figure phrase. Example: On the table was a large bowl has the same structure as The large bowl was on the table, except that the order of on the table and a/the large bowl is reversed. More grammaticalized versions of this strategy include English There's a snake in the back yard. (Section 10.4.3) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 10.4.3 |
| expressionOf | presentational location construction |
| Subtype of | recruitment 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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