Comparative Concept: prototypical construction (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
prototypical construction (cxn)
| Typ | construction (def) |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | prototypical construction • prototypical |
| Assoziiert | |
| Spraakbanken | prototypical construction (cxn) |
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Definition
a construction that expresses the most common or 'favored' (see Section 2.4) combinations of information packaging and semantic content. Example: an old violin is an instance of a prototypical referring construction: it expresses reference to an object, the most common or 'favored' type of referent. (Section 2.2.3)