presupposed open proposition (inf)

Type information packaging
http://example.org/cx/hasExample It was Jack who stole my cookies!
Definition in identificational information packaging, the proposition with an unknown part (hence open proposition) which is already part of the shared knowledge of the speaker and hearer (that is, it is presupposed). Example: in It was Jack who stole my cookies!, the presupposed open proposition is X stole my cookies; in the appropriate discourse context, it is already known that someone stole my cookies. (Section 11.4.1)
altLabel POP
See section (in Croft 2022) 11.4.1
Subtype of discourse structure

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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