AversiveCase (GOLD-2008)

Aversive Case ( Concept )
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/AversiveCase

Thing
      |_ Abstract
            |_ Linguistic Property
                  |_ Morphosyntactic Property
                        |_ Case Property
                              |_ Aversive Case

Definition:

AversiveCase expresses fear or is literally translated as 'turning from' in some languages [Blake 2001, 156].

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palpir-	tungu	uli-	nyin
poison-	AVS	die-	PART

dying from poison

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Yanyi-	ngungu	rumpi
ghost-	AVS	fear

S/he is afraid of ghosts.

Properties	Values	Definition
`abbreviation`	Thing	The abbreviated form representing a scientific term, e.g., ACC, 2, CL.
`argument`	Clause	The syntactic entity about which something is predicated.
`feature`	Linguistic Property	The relation between a linguistic unit and a linguistic feature. A feature inheres in its host. NOTE: this relation is distinct from the hasFeature which pertains to data structures.
`has Example`	Thing
`has Page Information`	Thing
`predicate`	Clause	The predicate is the relation between the Clause and a portion of a clause, excluding the subject, that expresses something about the subject [Crystal 1980, 280; Hartmann and Stork 1972, 182; Pei and Gaynor 1954, 173; Pike and Pike 1982, 40; Crystal 1985, 241-242].

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