| Type | information packaging |
|---|---|
| Definition | provides additional information about the referent and enriches the specification of the referent for the hearer. Example: in a furry cat, the speaker enriches the specification of the referent in the cat category by the property of being furry. In the file metaphor for describing propositional acts, modification enriches the discourse file; the information it adds to the discourse file is secondary in comparison to predication. (Sections 1.3, 2.1) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 1.3 |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 2.1 |
| Function of | attributive phrase |
| Function of | noun complement |
| Subtype of | major propositional act |
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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