The semantics and pragmatics of plurals
This paper addresses the semantics and pragmatics of singular and plural nominals in languages that manifest a binary morphological number distinction within this category. We review the main challenges such an account has to meet, and develop an analysis which treats the plural morpheme as semantic...
Main Authors: | Henriëtte de Swart, Donka Farkas |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Linguistic Society of America
2010-03-01
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Series: | Semantics and Pragmatics |
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Online Access: | http://semprag.org/article/view/130 |
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