entity-central (inf)

Type information packaging
http://example.org/cx/hasExample There's a snake in the kitchen sink
Definition a type of thetic in which the most important new information being presented is the identity of the object (entity). Example: There's a snake in the kitchen sink is an instance of an entity-central thetic construction, where the primary new information being presented is the snake. (Sections 10.1.2, 11.3.1)
See section (in Croft 2022) 10.1.2
See section (in Croft 2022) 11.3.1
Function of entity-central construction
Subtype of thetic

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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