| Type | construction |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Ira pretended that the guests had already left |
| Definition | a predicate expressing a pretense event. Example: in Ira pretended that the guests had already left, the proposition that the guests had already left is presented as true in an alternative reality from the shared beliefs of the interlocutors (or, for that matter, Ira). There is a strong implicature that the proposition does not hold in reality (that is, the shared beliefs of the interlocutors). (Section 18.2.2) |
| altLabel | pretence predicate |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 18.2.2 |
| Subtype of | propositional attitude predicate |
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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