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From Noun to Intensifier: Massa and Massa's in Flemish Varieties of Dutch
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De Clerck, Bernard; Colleman, Timothy – Language Sciences, 2013
In this paper a case of synchronic layering is examined in which Dutch "massa" ("mass") and plural "massa's" ("masses") are attested with lexical uses as a collective noun, quantifying uses ("a large quantity of") and intensifying uses ("very")--with plural "massa's" only--in some Flemish varieties of Dutch. Against the background of…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Morphology (Languages), Nouns, Language Variation