NPE, gender and the countable/mass distinction

The main purpose of this paper is to present arguments for the existence of a certain relation between formal gender features and the semantic notions ‘count noun’ and ‘mass noun’. In particular, facts relating to how NP ellipsis operates in indefinite DPs in Dutch and Afrikaans are taken to provide...

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Main Author: Taraldsen, Knut Tarald
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Stellenbosch University 2017-12-01
Series:Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:https://spil.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/288