Comparative Concept: set-member term (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
set-member term (cxn)
Typ | construction |
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Alias(se) | set-member term |
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Partonomie
Taxonomie
Definition
a form that specifies a member or members of a designated set, usually previously presented in the discourse or inferrable from it, which has some sort of ordering. Example: in the next question, next is a set-member term. Other set-member terms include last, another, (the) other, and the ordinal numerals. (Section 4.1.3)