9.2.4. Compatibility of quantifiers with count/mass nouns
Quantifiers such a minden 'every, all' are compatible with both count and mass nouns.
| minden | könyv/víz |
| every | book/water |
’every book / all the water’
Source: Dékány 2021: 139
There are other univeral quantifiers that can only modify count nouns.
| mindegyik/valahány | alma/*homok |
| each/every.single | apple/*sand |
’each/every single apple/sand’
Source: Dékány & Csirmaz 2018: 1093.
There is a number of quantifier that require semantic plurality, therefore they cannot appear with mass nouns. Such quantifiers are e.g. the existential //néhány// 'a few', the existential //valahány// 'some', the interrogative //hány// 'how.many', or the negative //sehány //'not any number of'.
| néhány/valahány/hány/sehány | alma/*homok |
| a.few/some/how.many/not.any | apple/sand |
’a few/some//how many/no apples/sand’
Source: Dékány & Csirmaz 2018: 1092-1093.
There is a number of quantifier that can quantify both count and mass nouns. Such quantifiers are e.g. the existential //valamennyi// 'some', the interrogative //mennyi// 'how.many', or the negative //semennyi //'not any number of'.
| valamennyi/mennyi/semennyi | alma/homok |
| some/how.many/not.any | apple/sand |
’some//how many/no apples/sand’
Source: Dékány & Csirmaz 2018: 1092-1093.
Quantifiers and mass nouns are always compatible, if the noun has a kind-reading.
| Minden/néhány | hús | büdös. |
| every/some | meat | smelly |
’Every kind of meat is smelly. / Some kinds of meat are smelly.’
Source: Dékány & Csirmaz 2018: 1094. (slightly modified)
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