type identifiable (inf)

Type	information packaging
http://example.org/cx/hasExample	An undergraduate student may take this course
Definition	a referent in a nonreal world or mental space (desire, hypothetical, negative, etc.) whose individual identity is unknown to speaker and hearer; all that is known about the nonreal referent is its type, as provided by the common noun and any modifiers in the referring phrase. Example: in An undergraduate student may take this course, all that is known about the possible referent is that he or she belongs to the type undergraduate student. (Section 3.5)
See section (in Croft 2022)	3.5
Function of	anaphoric-head construction
Function of	indefinite article
Function of	semantically nonspecific article
Subtype of	identifiability

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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