Comparative Concept: predication (inf)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
predication (inf)
| Typ | information packaging (def) |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | predication |
| Assoziiert | |
| Spraakbanken | predication (inf) |
Umbrella
Hierarchy
Definition
what the speaker is asserting about the referents in a particular utterance. Example: in Masha is nice, the speaker is predicating the property of being nice to the referent Masha. In the file metaphor for describing propositional acts, predication adds information to a referent's discourse file. The predication is the comment in topic–comment information packaging. (Sections 1.3, 2.1)