pronoun-retention strategy (str)

Type strategy
http://example.org/cx/hasExample hasarim [she-ha-nasi shalax otam la mitsraim]
Definition a strategy for the expression of the necessarily shared participant in the relative clause of an externally headed relative clause construction, in which the participant is expressed in the relative clause by an anaphoric pronoun. Example: the Modern Hebrew construction illustrated by hasarim [she-ha-nasi shalax otam la mitsraim] the ministers that the President sent to Egypt, uses the pronoun-retention strategy: the anaphoric pronoun otam them occurs in the relative clause she-ha-nasi shalax otam la mitsraim that the President sent them to Egypt, and refers to the external relative clause head hasarim the ministers. (Section 19.2.2)
altLabel pronoun-retention (strategy)
See section (in Croft 2022) 19.2.2
Subtype of externally headed

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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