Comparative Concept: property (concept) (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
property (concept) (sem)
| Typ | meaning (def) |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | property (concept) • property concept • property |
| Assoziiert | |
| Spraakbanken | property (concept) (sem) |
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Definition
a concept belonging to a semantic class of relational, 1-dimensional, usually scalar, and usually stable concepts. Examples: age, height, shape, and so on are property concepts – they are defined on a 1-dimensional scale, and many of them are stable properties of the object they apply to. (Sections 2.1, and 4.1.1, which includes an enumeration of types of property concepts)