Comparative Concept: apposition (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
apposition (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | apposition |
| Assoziiert |
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Definition
a strategy for object - reference in which two or more separate referring phrases juxtaposed to each other refer to the same referent. Example: in my brother, the geophysicist, two separate referring phrases, my brother and the geophysicist, are juxtaposed and refer to the same individual. (Section 5.4)