| Type | information packaging |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | He ate the cookies |
| Definition | the degree of attention directed to a referent by the interlocutors at a given point in the discourse. Example: it is generally the case that, in a sentence like He ate the cookies, the subject referent is more salient than the object referent in discourse. Salience is also considered to vary across different object concepts, other things being equal: people are more interested in other people, somewhat less so in animate objects, and less still in inanimate objects. Salience is the motivation for the Animacy Hierarchy and the Extended Animacy Hierarchy. (Section 6.1.1) |
| altLabel | salience |
| altLabel | salient |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 6.1.1 |
| Function of | argument phrase |
| 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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