CASA — A Constructionist Approach to Syntactic Analysis

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General Postmodifier-of-Noun Construction

Name General Postmodifier-of-Noun Construction
Semantic function of cxn Providing description or evaluation of THING REFERRED to by noun.
Semantic role of slots THING REFERRED TO DESCRIPTION / EVALUATION
Syntactic form N PP
RELATIVE-CLAUSE CXN
V-ing CL
V-ed CL
Example talks about linguistics, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfareCOCA-2006-ACAD, the boats coming into the harbor, the published book
Construction family MODIFIER CONSTRUCTION
Literature Herbst & Hoffmann (2023: Ch.5)
Annotators/Date TRH/04/21F