Comparative Concept: comparee (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
comparee (sem)
| Typ | meaning (def) |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | comparee |
| Assoziiert | |
| Spraakbanken | comparee (sem) |
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Hierarchy
Definition
in a comparative construction or equative construction, the referent whose position on the gradable predicative scale is specified relative to the position of the standard on the predicative scale. Example: in the comparative construction Your cat is bigger than my dog, the cat is the comparee – it is asserted to exceed the dog on the scale of size. (Sections 17.2.1, 17.2.4)