Comparative Concept: comparative referent (inf)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
comparative referent (inf)
| Typ | information packaging |
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| Alias(se) | comparative referent |
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an unspecified referent occurring in the standard of comparison in a comparative construction. Example: in The boy runs as fast as anyone in his class, anyone is a comparative pronoun expressing a hypothetical referent selected from the class representing the standard to which the boy's running is being compared. (Section 3.5)