Re: Semantic content (was: Ural-Altaic. A fly)

Joachim Pense wrote:
>
> 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".

"Many" is not a word for "plurality" -- for one thing, it's an
adjective, not a noun.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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