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To The Question Of Concrete Nouns As Sources For Italian Quantizers

Table 1: Donor zones

INDEFINITELY LARGEQUANTITY INDEFINITELY SMALLQUANTITY
- vertical objects (montagna, mucchio);- spacious/unlimited surfaces (mondo);- objects consisting of many items (fascio, cluster);- oriented torrents of substance (fiume, vortic);- moving in the air and falling masses or multitudes (nuvoa, pioggia);- suddenly appearing masses or multitudes (valanga, diluvio, manica); - a small part of smth (brandello);- a small mass/volume of an object (goccia, boccone);- a small limited surface (scintilla, spot, punto);- a small material object (tot, capelli);- small measure of volume (grano);
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