Re: number marking

Matt Pearson wrote:

> Question:  Has anybody else thought of a system like this?  Are
> there any natlangs that work this way?
>
> Another possibility I'm exploring would be to have different
> definite singular and plural suffixes for different semantic classes
> (e.g. one for humans, one for animals, one for round things, etc.),
> which would drag the system closer to a Chinese-style classifier
> system...
>
> What do you think?
Nice system.  Nova marks definite/known number :: indefinite/unknown
number but that is as close as I come to it.
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