Re: No plural morpheme
From: | Michael Poxon <mike@...> |
Date: | Saturday, November 24, 2007, 17:08 |
My lang does this; it has no nominal plural markers at all. Plurality is
shown in the auxiliary, for instance:
Bere engu ineda "I saw the horse" (lit: I saw it, horse)
Bere engu inera "I saw the horses" (lit: I saw them, horse)
Mike
>
> I'm trying to keep Senjecan grammar as uncluttered as possible. I
> thought that I might not use a plural morpheme if the plurality of the
> noun was obvious as when, say, a number qualified the noun.
>
> What are your experiences with this in either a natlang or your
> conlang? I believe that Japanese does this.
>