The abundance inference of pluralised mass nouns is an implicature: Evidence from Greek
Across languages, plural marking on count nouns typically gives rise to a 'multiplicity inference', indicating that the noun ranges over sums with a cardinality of 2 or more. Plural marking has also been observed to occur on mass nouns in Greek and a few other languages, giving rise to a p...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2018-10-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/531 |