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Number – Constructions and Semantics: Case studies from Africa, Amazonia, India and Oceania
Edited by Anne Storch and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
[Studies in Language Companion Series 151] 2014
► pp. 1–32

Chapter 1. One size fits all?

On the grammar and semantics of singularity and plurality

Published online: 19 March 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.151.01sto
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