presentational construction (cxn)

Type construction
http://example.org/cx/hasExample There's my bicycle
http://example.org/cx/hasExample In the corner sat a mouse
Definition the construction that expresses a presentational information packaging. Example: There's my bicycle and In the corner sat a mouse are sentences that express the presentational information packaging function. Subtypes of the presentational construction are the presentational location and the presentational possession constructions. (Sections 10.1.2, 10.4)
See section (in Croft 2022) 10.1.2
See section (in Croft 2022) 10.4
Subtype of entity-central construction

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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