Multal

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).

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;