| Type | information packaging |
|---|---|
| Definition | how identifiable a particular referent/token is to the speaker and hearer, based on the description of the referent/token provided by the referring phrase. Examples: felicitous use of the student or she requires that the identity of the referent is known to the speaker and hearer; if a student is used for a real-world referent, then the identity of the referent is unknown to the hearer, and possibly also to the speaker; a student may also refer to a referent that is only type identifiable, hence its individual identity cannot be known to the speaker and hearer. (Section 3.2) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 3.2 |
| Subtype of | information status |
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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