Comparative Concept: domain (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
domain (str)
| Typ | strategy (def) |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | domain |
| Assoziiert | |
| Spraakbanken | domain (str) |
Umbrella
Hierarchy
Definition
in a construction using the indexation strategy, the construction as a whole that the controller, target, and index occur in. Example: in Spanish los libros rojos 'the red books', the domain is the modification construction including the modifier rojos 'red' (the target), the modifier suffix -os '[Masculine Plural]', and the head - noun libros 'books' (the controller). (Section 4.4)