| Type | information packaging |
|---|---|
| Definition | the information status of a referent in discourse is a characterization of how the interlocutors identify an individual as the intended referent of a referring phrase. Information status represents a subdivision of the information packaging function of reference: a more fine-grained means to pick out the referent. Examples: some examples of information status categories are active, semi-active, inactive, and other categories listed in the third column of Table 3.4. (Section 3.2) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 3.2 |
| Function of | article |
| Subtype of | discourse structure |
| Superlativ:ART_ADJ-(e)st |
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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