topic-locational hybrid possessive strategy (str)

Type strategy
http://example.org/cx/hasExample lɣula ttuɣa ɣr-es idž n wəzɛuq
Definition a strategy for the presentational possession construction in which the possessum is expressed in a subject phrase, usually the subject of a verb glossed as exist, and the possessor is expressed both as a topic phrase and as a locative argument phrase (like the locational possessive strategy) coreferential with the topic phrase. Example: Eastern Tarafit lɣula ttuɣa ɣr-es idž n wəzɛuq [ogress was at-her one of little_donkey] The ogress had a little donkey is an instance of the topic-locational hybrid possessive strategy: the ogress is expressed as both a topic phrase lɣula and as a coreferential locative argument phrase ɣr-es at her. (Section 10.4.2)
See section (in Croft 2022) 10.4.2
expressionOf presentational possession construction
Subtype of encoding strategy

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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