anaphoric article (cxn)

Type construction
http://example.org/cx/hasExample e tape araa ni nararo...go nararo wanogoe...
Definition an article that is used for a semi-active referent. Example: in the Nguna text passage e tape araa ni nararo...go nararo wanogoe... [he] took the branch of the nararo tree...and the aforementioned nararo tree..., wanogoe the aforementioned is an anaphoric article. An anaphoric article is always used when the referent is semi-active because it has been previously referred to in the discourse. (Section 3.3.1)
altLabel anaphoric (definite) article
See section (in Croft 2022) 3.3.1
Subtype of attributive phrase
Subtype of definite article

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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