Glossary term S

Specification Relation

A specification relation is an elaboration relation in which a proposition provides more information about another proposition by restating it more narrowly.

More specific concepts within specification relation.

  1. Dijk 1981, 269-270, 278-279
  2. Beekman, Callow, and Kopesec 1981, 96-97
  3. Hollenbach 1975, 18
  4. Longacre 1983, 120
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