Riitta Välimaa-Blum

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Välimaa-Blum, Riitta 2001 The English bare plural and the Finnish partitive: Nonbounded quantity in a mental space Languages in Contrast 3:2, pp. 181–201 | Article
To understand the use of a grammatical form in one language, it is sometimes helpful to look at another language. In this paper, I propose that the English bare plural expresses nonbounded quantity in a mental space, just as the Finnish bare partitive does. The different formal means used by… read more