Re: Singular Pluralities

En réponse à John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

>
> Exceptional and irregular aren't necessarily the same thing:  in
> German
> almost all noun plurals are irregular, as I have ranted before, in the
> sense
> that they are not generated by a productive paradigm and must be
> remembered individually.
>
I was using the word "exceptional" in the sense of "of extreme rarity", a
meaning that it also often has. Although in Maggel the distinction between
exceptional and irregular (and in fact the distinction between regular and
irregular, since "regular" in Maggel refers to a process which simply has a
plurality - see, I remembered this word ;)))) - rather than a majority) is
rather thin.

Christophe.

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