Chapter 9
Collectives, measurers and kinds
Article outline
- 9.1General overview of the chapter
- 9.2Collective nouns: Main empirical properties
- 9.2.1Masses and collectives
- 9.2.2Collective suffixes: Semantic specialisation
- 9.2.3Collective readings of non-collective suffixes and place readings of collective suffixes
- 9.2.4Other empirical properties
- 9.2.4.1Collectives and interfixation
- 9.2.4.2Piling up of collectives, and divisors with collectives
- 9.3An analysis of collective nouns
- 9.3.1Collective suffixes
- 9.3.2-ado
- 9.3.3Other collective readings
- 9.3.4Interfixation and the piling up of suffixes
- 9.4Measurers
- 9.4.1Main empirical properties
- 9.4.2Analysis
- 9.5Abstract nouns and kind nouns