Meanings
- not comparableNot individuated; treated as a mass or unit.
Clearly, there is nothing intrinsically important about hippos; in fact most grounding-related hierarchies would predict nonhuman, nonindividuated participants to be less newsworthy and therefore less foregroundable than individuated human participants.
1990, Suzanne Fleischman, Tense and Narrativity: From Medieval Performance to Modern Fiction, page 181
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