Diversity Also Means Quantity
Peter-Arno Coppen and Ton den Boon analyze the grammatical usage of 'diverse' in phrases like 'diverse built-in appliances.' They explain that while traditionally meaning varied items, the term increasingly conveys quantity in contexts such as auction listings. The authors describe this shift as a fusion where 'diverse' functions between a numeral and an adjective, absorbing both the sense of variety and amount without needing separate quantifiers.
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