Comparative Concept: property concept (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
property concept (sem)
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Alias(se) | property concept • property • quality |
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a concept belonging to a semantic class of relational, 1-dimensional, usually scalar, and usually stable concepts. Examples: age, height, shape, and so on are property concepts – they are defined on a 1-dimensional scale, and many of them are stable properties of the object they apply to. (Sections 2.1, and 4.1.1, which includes an enumeration of types of property concepts)