Comparative Concept: indexation feature (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
indexation feature (str)
Typ | strategy |
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Alias(se) | indexation feature • agreement feature |
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in a construction using the indexation strategy, the categories of the referent that the index expresses. Typical categories are person, gender–class, and number. Example: in Spanish los libros roj-os 'the red books', the suffix -os on the modifier rojos 'red' indexes the plural number and masculine gender of libros 'books'. (Section 4.4)