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名詞

pluplural (plural pluplural)

1. (grammar, linguistics, rhetoric) A word that is its own plural; an autological plural form.
   • 2009, Theodore Sider, “Ontological Realism”, in Metametaphysics, Oxford University Press, page 395:

     How will this plural approach translate sentences of DKLish that are themselves plurally quantified? As Gabriel Uzquiano (2004) points out, ‘pluplural’ quantifiers over simples will be needed...

使用する際の注意点

The word is a deliberate neologism created to illustrate the concept of a word that refers to itself (autonymy or self-reference). Other examples of words that can function as their own plurals include deer, sheep, and species, though these are traditionally classified as invariable nouns.

関連する語

• plural
• superplural
• autological