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What is the term for a noun that stands for more than one portion of an uncountable referent?
A noun that refers to one countable thing is singular.
A noun that stands for one countable portion, part, or unit of some non-countable thing is singulative.
See http://www-01.sil.org/...
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Are there languages in which plural classifiers co-occur with numerals?
I'm aware that a number of classifer languages have what might be called "plural classifiers" which -- unlike "normal" classifier -- force a plural, count interpretation, instead of being ambiguous ...
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Are there any languages that mark nouns as mass?
Nouns like water, mud, furniture in English are odd with plural morphology (adding -s, as in furnitures), with numerals (three furniture(s)), and seem to have their own quantifier (much water but not ...
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