Re: No plural morpheme

--- Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> wrote:
>
> As someone else said, there are several plural
> morphemes -- and they
> have different distributions. My favorite thing
> about -tachi is that,
> when attached to a name, e.g. Taroo-tachi, it means
> "Taroo and others
> (e.g. his family, friends, etc.)".
>
Kazakh does this, too.  Bekarystar means "Bekarys and
his family/friends).

Kind of wild that languages as diverse as Japanese and
Kazakh do this same thing, though I guess it just
means the feature is more widespread than I thought.

Geoff

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