anchor (inf)

Type information packaging
http://example.org/cx/hasExample Peter's bag, arm, brother
Definition an object that, if its identity is known to speaker and hearer, allows for the identity of a related object to be known to the speaker and hearer. Example: knowing who Peter is we can identify Peter's bag, arm, brother (Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2002:147) -- i.e. Peter serves as the anchor for identifying the bag, arm, or brother. The anchoring function requires that the modifying object concept denote an individual and not a type, and preferably a highly accessible individual. Another term used for anchor is reference point, but the latter term has another use in this book. (Section 5.2.1)
See section (in Croft 2022) 5.2.1

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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