focus (inf)

Type information packaging
http://example.org/cx/hasExample It was Jack who stole my cookies!
Definition in identificational information packaging, the information which is identified as the filler for the open part of the presupposed open proposition. Example: in It was Jack who stole my cookies!, the presupposed open proposition is X stole my cookies, and the filler of X is Jack -- i.e. X = Jack. The focus may be any part of the information in the clause, not just an argument. The term focus construction is sometimes used as a synonym for identificational construction, but we avoid that usage here. (Section 11.4.1)
See section (in Croft 2022) 11.4.1
Subtype of discourse structure

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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