Comparative Concept: figure-ground spatial relation (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
figure-ground spatial relation (sem)
| Typ | meaning |
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| Alias(se) | figure-ground spatial relation • figure–ground spatial relation • location relation • spatial figure–ground relation |
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a spatial relation that holds between two objects such that the ground object functions as a reference point for locating the figure. Example: the bicycle in the garage is a locative modification construction that expresses a figure–ground spatial relation between the bicycle and the garage. (Sections 4.1.4, 10.4.1)