Comparative Concept: group term (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
group term (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | group term |
| Assoziiert |
Partonomie
Taxonomie
Definition
a mensural term that selects an amount of a set of referents according to some delimiting function. Example: in a herd of cattle, herd is a group term. (Section 4.1.3)