Comparative Concept: target (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
target (str)
Typ | strategy (def) |
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Alias(se) | target |
Assoziiert | |
Spraakbanken | target (str) |
Umbrella
Hierarchy
Definition
in a construction using the indexation strategy, the element of the construction with which the index is combined, usually as an affix. Example: in Spanish los libros rojos 'the red books', the target is the modifier rojos 'red', which has the Masculine Plural index -os suffixed to it. (Section 4.4)