Comparative Concept: nominal modification construction (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
nominal modification construction (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | nominal modification construction • nominal modifier construction |
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a construction in which an object concept is used as a modifier of a referent expression. Examples: the English Possessive Construction, as in the boy's bicycle, is an instance of a nominal modification construction. (Sections 2.2.5, 4.1.4)