Semantic plurality : English collective nouns and other ways of denoting pluralities of entities /

This monograph proposes a comparative approach to all the ways of denoting 'more than one' entity, from collective and aggregate nouns (with the first-ever typology), to count plurals, partly substantivised adjectives and conjoined NPs. This semantic feature approach to plurality, which cu...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Gardelle, Laure (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
Series:	Current issues in linguistic theory. Series IV, Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science ; volume 349.
Subjects:	Grammar, Comparative and general > Collective nouns. English language > Collective nouns.