multal

English

Adjective
Examples
  • Many students failed the test.
  • We greatly prefer dogs to cats.
  • The cake had a lot of icing.

multal (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Expressing a large (but not maximal) quantity or degree. [from 1970s]
    • 1973, Revue des langues vivantes‎:
      Finally, the wish to classify and subdivide into further subcategories at times leads the authors to use labels that border on jargon (e.g. multal and paucal groups of pronouns, p. 220).
    • 2016, New Medievalisms‎:
      The next section includes the study of the role of metonymy in the motivation of the lexical-semantic changes leading to the present-day multal quantifier sense of lot in the context of the quasi-determiner a lot of;

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