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Indefinite-Plural-NP Construction

Name Indefinite-Plural-NP Construction
Semantic function of cxn General reference to the totality of ‘things‘ that form the class described by the noun.
Syntactic form Npl
Example They love books.
Agreement plural verb
General cxn-type INDEFINITE-REFERENCE CONSTRUCTION
COUNT-NP CONSTRUCTION
Construction family NP CONSTRUCTION
Literature Herbst & Hoffmann (2023: Ch. 5)
Annotators/Date TRH/04/21F