a highly grammaticalized strategy for encoding the relation in major propositional acts (modifier--referent, predicate--argument), in which one of the two elements is in a morphologically distinct form. Example: in Syrian Arabic ʔəṣṣeṭ haz-zalame that fellow's story, the Construct Form ʔəṣṣeṭ story is an example of a special form used in this nominal modifier construction. (Section 4.5)