| Type | information packaging |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | I'm grateful that you finished cleaning the house |
| Definition |
the set of propositions evoked by the constructions in a sentence which the speaker assumes the hearer already knows or is ready to take for granted at the time the sentence is uttered(Lambrecht 1994:52). Example: in I'm grateful that you finished cleaning the house, the proposition that you finished cleaning the house is presupposed, while the proposition that I am grateful about it is asserted. (Section 11.4.1) |
| altLabel | pragmatically non-asserted |
| altLabel | presuppose |
| altLabel | presupposition |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 11.4.1 |
| Function of | adverbial dependent clause |
| Function of | subordinate clause |
| Subtype of | discourse structure |
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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