Intersective modifier
id:
intersective-modifier-269-5580840
title:
Intersective modifier
text:
In linguistics, an intersective modifier is an expression which modifies another by delivering the intersection of their denotations. One example is the English adjective "blue", whose intersectivity can be seen in the fact that being a "blue pig" entails being both blue and a pig. By contrast, the English adjective "former" is non-intersective since a "former president" is neither former nor a president. When a modifier is intersective, its contribution to the sentence's truth conditions do not
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersective_modifier
date created:
date modified:
2023-03-07T02:29:01Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q65065165","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65065165"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
13