- PII
- S0373-658X0000445-2-1
- DOI
- 10.7868/SX0000445-2-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume / Issue 4
- Pages
- 13-40
- Abstract
- The article contains a corpus study of Russian genius constructions with the words kuna, mountain, heap, etc. and a detailed description of restrictions on their use. It is shown that these constructions form a kind of category of "lexical plurality", which exists along with the grammatical one and represents its own system of non-trivial semantic oppositions in the quantitative zone, distinguishing a set of objects by qualitative features, such as the heterogeneity of constituent objects, their ordering, evaluativeness, etc. ...
- Keywords
- grammaticalization lexical plurality Russian language number
- Date of publication
- 06.07.2009
- Year of publication
- 2009
- Number of purchasers
- 2
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- 732