reference, referent (inf)

Type information packaging
http://example.org/cx/hasExample Masha is nice
Definition what the speaker is talking about. Example: in Masha is nice, the speaker is referring to a person named Masha, and Masha is the referent. In the file metaphor for describing propositional acts, reference opens or accesses a discourse file for the referent. (Sections 1.3, 2.1)
See section (in Croft 2022) 1.3
See section (in Croft 2022) 2.1
Function of argument phrase
Function of referring phrase
Subtype of major propositional act

Constructions in the Research Constructicon using this comparative concept

Superlativ:ART_ADJ-(e)st
Comparative Construction
More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 1)
More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 2)
More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 3)

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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