Re: Semantic content (was: Ural-Altaic. A fly)
- From: Joachim Pense <spam-collector@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 22:40:18 +0200
Peter T. Daniels:
>>
>> But I was relating to your sentence, where you claimed that the
>> grammatical morpheme denoting plural has "no semantic content of its
>> own", and used it as a definition of "grammatical morpheme". Why is
>> plurality not a semantic content?
>
> The word for that is "plurality," not {s}.
>
I'd say the word for that is "many", or maybe "more than one", not
"plurality".
Joachim
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