🖤 Mass/Count, Collectives/Singulatives,
🖤 Welsh, Arabic
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🖤 She/her/hers.
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This phenomena comes under the general study of nominal flexibility. Often referred to as “grinding”, when a singular count noun in English has no article (a), this leads to a “stuff” reading. Compare (1), which is grammatical:
1. There is dog all over the road!
This phenomena comes under the general study of nominal flexibility. Often referred to as “grinding”, when a singular count noun in English has no article (a), this leads to a “stuff” reading. Compare (1), which is grammatical:
1. There is dog all over the road!