module: core

Class LinguisticFeature


Extends:

        sumo:Abstract
 

Direct Instances:

None
 

Direct Subclasses:

  1. MorphosyntacticFeature
  2. PhonologicalFeature
  3. SemanticFeature
 

Class Documentation:

LinguisticFeature, also called 'property', 'quality' or 'feature name', is the class of features that may be associated with units relevant to a linguistic systems. e.g., the feature 'tense' has values: 'past', 'present', ..., 'future'. In the broader domain, the class 'feature' can be thought of as the set of qualities associated with some object in general, e.g., color, size, shape, etc. (Shieber 1986: 12; Gaerdenfors 2000; Masolo et al. 2002). ---------- LinguisticFeatureValue is the class of values that may be associated with instances of linguistic feature. That is, specific features have specific feature values associated with them, e.g., the feature 'tense' has 'past', 'present', ..., 'future' as values. In the broader domain, the class of LinguisticFeatureValue can be thought of as the set of qualia associated with some feature in general, a point in cognitive space. E.g., red is a quale in color space (Shieber 1986: 12; Maxwell, Simons, and Hayashi 2001; Gaerdenfors 2000; Masolo et al. 2002).

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