| Type | information packaging |
|---|---|
| Definition | a speech act which requests information, usually of the addressee, regarding uncertain or unknown information that is part of the propositional content of the question. Interrogatives are divided into polarity questions, information questions, and alternative questions. (Sections 12.1, 12.3) |
| altLabel | question |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 12.1 |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 12.3 |
| Function of | interrogative construction |
| Subtype of | information gap |
| Subtype of | speech acts |
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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