propositional attitude event (sem)

Type meaning
http://example.org/cx/hasExample Aram thought that the pianist was very good
Definition an event of thinking, believing, and so on that expresses an attitude of the experiencer toward the truth of the proposition expressed by the complement. Example: in Aram thought that the pianist was very good, the complement-taking predicate thought denotes a propositional attitude event. Special cases of propositional attitude events are knowledge events and pretense events. (Section 18.2.2)
altLabel propositional attitude (event)
See section (in Croft 2022) 18.2.2
Function of propositional attitude construction
Subtype of eventive participant event

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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