presentational (inf)

Type information packaging
http://example.org/cx/hasExample There's my bicycle
http://example.org/cx/hasExample In the corner sat a mouse
Definition a type of entity-central thetic information packaging that introduces a referent into the discourse, in order to make the identity of the referent known to the hearer. Example: There's my bicycle and In the corner sat a mouse are sentences that express the presentational information packaging function. (Sections 10.1.2, 10.4)
See section (in Croft 2022) 10.1.2
See section (in Croft 2022) 10.4
Function of presentational construction
Subtype of entity-central

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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