proper noun (cxn)

Type construction
http://example.org/cx/hasExample Bill Croft
Definition a linguistic form that refers to an individual directly -- that is, it names an individual rather than a category. The term proper name is also used; we will consider these two terms to be synonymous. Example: Bill Croft refers to a particular individual. Note that being a proper noun is a function of a form; one can use the form Bill Croft as a common noun -- for example, to refer to a category of all persons named Bill Croft. (Section 3.1.1)
altLabel proper name
See section (in Croft 2022) 3.1.1
Subtype of noun

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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