Browsing College of Arts and Celtic Studies by Subject "Plural"

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Goidelic inherent plurals and the morphosemantics of number

Acquaviva, Paolo (Elsevier, 2006-11)

After numbers above 2, nouns are singular or plural depending on the language. But in Irish and Scottish some nouns must be singular and others plural, in a variety of dialectal patterns. Once the semantic basis underlying ...
Plural mass nouns and the compositionality of number

Acquaviva, Paolo (Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2004)

It is true that, as is well known since Allan (1980), mass and count are best seen as preferences rather than absolute values for lexical items; for instance, clothes cannot be governed by a numeral, but it tolerates the ...