Sunday 1 April 2018

Membership Specification: Entity Or Quality

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 268):
The class is specified either
  • by naming the class itself by reference to the entity that constitutes the class, as in What did your father do? – He was an architect, or 
  • by naming a criterion for class-membership by reference to a quality or qualities of the entity that constitutes the class, as in The New Yorker is very generous.