objective (sem)

Type	meaning
http://example.org/cx/hasExample	Jim thought that Wendy was in Santa Fe
http://example.org/cx/hasExample	I think that Wendy was in Santa Fe
Definition	describing an entity from an outside, explicit perspective on the entity, in contrast to a subjective construal. Example: in the objective epistemic modal construction Jim thought that Wendy was in Santa Fe, the attitude about whether Wendy being in Santa Fe is true is that of Jim, not the speaker, and in the past, not at the time of the speech event; both of these pieces of information are explicitly expressed in the sentence (Jim and thought). It is also possible to construe speaker attitude at the speech event time as objective, as in I think that Wendy was in Santa Fe, where speaker (I) and speaker attitude (think) are explicitly expressed. (Section 12.3.4)
See section (in Croft 2022)	12.3.4
Subtype of	epistemic modality

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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