Name | Numerical-Plural-NP Construction | |
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Semantic function of cxn | Specifying the precise quantity of the THING REFERRED TO as more than 1. | |
Usage conditions | The REFERENT does not have to be expressed explicitly if it can be identified from the linguistic or situational context (definite null-instantiation). | |
Semantic role of slots | CARDINAL NUMBER | THINGS REFERRED TO |
Syntactic form | twothree4…17…one hundred…7,089,537... | Nplcontextual anchor point |
Example | Fourteen people attended the meeting. I could see the beams of one lighthouse, but not of two. | |
Agreement | plural verb | |
General cxn-type | QUANTIFIER-NP CONSTRUCTION | |
Construction family | NP CONSTRUCTION | |
Literature | Herbst & Hoffmann (2023: Ch.5) | |
Annotators/Date | TRH/04/21F |