the combination of meaning and information packaging conveyed by a construction. Example: the numeral modification construction illustrated by three tree-s combines the meanings of an object, or more precisely a group of objects (trees), and the cardinality of the group (three), packaged as referring to the (group of) trees and adding information about the group of trees – namely, that its cardinality is three. Another use of the term 'function' is to refer to a role in a construction. (Section 1.1)