| From: | Dirk Elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 7, 2006, 16:33 |
On 11/7/06, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpjonsson@...> wrote:> Does anyone know of a natlang which distinguishes > number for animate, but not for inanimate nouns?Shoshoni. The *preference* is to not use number marking for inanimates, but I can elicit them from my informant without too much trouble. However pluralized inanimates never show up in narrative or spontaneous speech. Dirk