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, )<br />

unit - unit (always with -> num+) ano ‘year’, cruzeiro, acre ‘acre’<br />

qu 166 quantity +de 263 (always with -> num+) montes de ‘lots of’, carradas de<br />

qus 189 "title"-quantity +de (always with -> num+)<br />

[in fact, a Danish MT motivated category,<br />

permitting Danish N N sequences]<br />

- 465 -<br />

‘loads of’<br />

metro ‘meter’, litro ‘liter’,<br />

garaffa ‘bottle’<br />

mon 358 quantity of money achádego ‘finder’s reward’,<br />

bolsa ‘scholarship’<br />

akc 98 countable category (rhetoric terms rather -> verbo ‘verb’, substantivo ‘noun’,<br />

ret)<br />

numeral ‘numeral’<br />

meta 11 kind of, type of, group member<br />

(semantically transparent like ar, er)<br />

tipo ‘type’, espécie ‘kind’<br />

263 The category retains the preposition in the Danish translation, unlike where the Danish translation<br />

equivalents allow direct nominal valency. It remains to be shown whether the Danish distinction reflects a semantic<br />

universal (thus justifying the use of the categories even for Portuguese), - or just some syntactic idiosyncracy of Danish.

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