mental space (sem)

Type meaning
http://example.org/cx/hasExample Harry thinks that a mountain lion is in the pine tree
Definition a context of belief, desire, or another mental state of a person which includes propositions that are taken to be true in that context, and entities that are taken to exist in that context. Example: in Harry thinks that a mountain lion is in the pine tree, the proposition that there is a mountain lion in the pine tree, and the existence of that particular mountain lion, is in the mental space of Harry's beliefs. (Sections 17.3.1, 18.2.2)
See section (in Croft 2022) 17.3.1
See section (in Croft 2022) 18.2.2

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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