anaphoric pronoun (cxn)

Type construction
http://example.org/cx/hasExample he
http://example.org/cx/hasExample she
http://example.org/cx/hasExample they
Definition a pronoun that is used for active referents. Example: English unstressed he, she, they are examples of anaphoric pronouns. Anaphoric pronouns are most often, but not always, used when the referent is active because it has been previously referred to in the discourse. (Section 3.3.1)
See section (in Croft 2022) 3.3.1
Subtype of definite pronoun
Subtype of pronoun

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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