Original scientific paper

Countability indicators

Marija Znika ; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje

Abstract

The paper analyses the category of countability of nouns, and refers to quantifiers (malo, mnogo, dosta) as detectors of whether a monosemic noun is countable or not. The quantifiers also indicate whether semantic restructuring has turned an originally uncountable polysemic noun into a countable one in any of its meanings. The results of the study can be used for more accurate lexicographic analysis, as well as in grammatical description because not only do they provide a semantically independent, morphologically feasible noun paradigm, but also an applicationally valid, semantically founded noun paradigm.

Keywords

countability; noun; countability indicator; quantifier; Croatian language

Hrčak ID:

22072

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/22072

Publication date:

21.4.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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