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Re: Number and noun terminology questions

From:Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Date:Saturday, February 7, 2004, 21:10
--- Trebor Jung <treborjung@...> wrote:

> 1. What different types of numbers are there? I > know of cardinal, ordinal, fractional, and > collective (= 'group of(?)'). Any others?
I guess if you're going to involve gramatical number, you could add singular, plural, dual, paral to that list. If you want to get into mathematical number, you can add rational, irrational, imaginary, etc.
> 2. What does one call nouns like 'worker' or > 'teacher', where a person does the action, as > opposed to 'work (n.)' and 'teaching (n.)'?
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