word order (str)

Type strategy
http://example.org/cx/hasExample red book
http://example.org/cx/hasExample libro rojo
Definition the relative order of two elements in a construction. Example: in English red book, the adjective red precedes the noun book; but in Spanish libro rojo, the adjective rojo red follows the noun libro book. (Sections 4.2, 5.3, 6.2.2)
See section (in Croft 2022) 4.2
See section (in Croft 2022) 5.3
See section (in Croft 2022) 6.2.2
Subtype of encoding strategy

Constructions in the Research Constructicon using this comparative concept

Adjectival-with-PARTNER Construction
General Postmodifier-of-Adjective Construction

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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