subject--oblique strategy (str)

Type strategy
http://example.org/cx/hasExample She walked toward the tree
Definition an argument structure strategy that co-expresses the first participant role of the event with the subject of the transitive construction, but does not co-express the second participant role with the object of the transitive construction; that is, the second participant role is expressed by an oblique phrase. Example: She walked toward the tree is an instance of the the subject--oblique strategy for the motion event expressed by walked -- the figure participant She is expressed as a subject phrase, and the ground participant the tree is expressed as an oblique phrase. (Section 7.3.1)
altLabel extended intransitive
See section (in Croft 2022) 7.3.1
expressionOf experiential construction
expressionOf motion construction
expressionOf perception clause
expressionOf possessed argument construction
Subtype of system

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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