Old Romanian pluralized mass and abstract nouns

The analysis of a rich old Romanian corpus shows that the ‘pluralization’ of mass and abstract nouns is extremely frequent in old Romanian. The semantic effects of pluralization are similar for mass and abstract nouns, consisting in the creation of denotative and/or connotative semantic variants. Of...

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Main Author: Gabriela Pană Dindelegan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Diacronia 2017-09-01
Series:Diacronia
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Online Access:http://www.diacronia.ro/ro/journal/issue/6/A82/en/pdf