multalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

multal (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Expressing a large (but not maximal) quantity or degree. [from 1970s]
   • 1973, Revue des langues vivantes‎^[1]:

     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 かつ paucal groups of pronouns, p. 220).

   • 2016, New Medievalisms‎^[2]:

     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;