In the English as in most but not all languages (i.e. Chinese) number can be extracted from the noun leaving a lexical-propositional form of the noun. From book and books we get object predicate: 1.
This article provides an analysis of the prepositional phrases of Maliseet-Passamaquoddy, an Eastern Algonquian language of New Brunswick and Maine. It establishes that these phrases may function as ...