Systemic functional theory embodies a multilingual perspective to language from its earliest formulation. However, it was not until the last two decades that descriptions of languages other than English, particularly in the light of language typology, garnered much interest among scholars working with s...
“plurale tantumA noun which is plural in form but singular in meaning, such asscissors,pantsorbinoculars. The plural of this term ispluralia tantum.” (Trask1997:172) This definition already illustrates some of the pitfalls.Scissorsis not necessarily singular in meaning (see Sect.2.1).Footnote...