| Type | meaning |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Jerry might get his hair cut |
| Definition | a type of modality that expresses the attitude of a speaker or other conceiver toward the truth of the situation described in the clause -- that is, degree of certainty that the situation is true. Example: Jerry might get his hair cut is an instance of epistemic modality -- the speaker is expressing a relatively neutral attitude toward whether the future situation will actually come about. Epistemic modality is construed broadly in this textbook, to include objective as well as subjective characterization of the epistemic modal attitude. (Sections 12.1, 12.3.4) |
| altLabel | epistemic modal(ity) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 12.1 |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 12.3.4 |
| Subtype of | modality |
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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