inferrable referent (inf)

Type information packaging
Definition a referent whose identity can be inferred via the type described by the referring phrase. Example: in the bowl of noodles on the kitchen counter, the identity of the referent can be inferred from the type description (is a bowl, contains noodles, is on the kitchen counter) even if the referent has not previously been mentioned. Inferrable referents are very similar to inactive referents (which are sometimes called noncontaining inferrables) and may not be clearly distinguishable from them. (Section 3.3.1)
altLabel (containing) inferrable
See section (in Croft 2022) 3.3.1
Function of definite pronoun
Subtype of reference, referent

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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