information gap (inf)

Type information packaging
http://example.org/cx/hasExample So I learned to sew books. They're really good books. It's just the covers that are rotten
Definition a discourse context which favors an identificational construal. An information gap is a proposition in the discourse context with a missing piece of information. Example: in So I learned to sew books. They're really good books. It's just the covers that are rotten, asserting that the books are really good evokes an information gap in that something is not good / rotten, since the books need repairing. The proposition with the information gap is the presupposed open proposition. (Section 11.4.1)
See section (in Croft 2022) 11.4.1
Subtype of identificational

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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