(paucal) Re: Introductions and a question about consonant s

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Peter Clark
| Subject: Re: Introductions and a question about consonants
|
| On Wednesday 15 January 2003 09:25 am, Peter Bleackley wrote:
| > Yes, I've just seen those posts. I made up "multiple"
| because I wanted a
| > third number, but not the standard dual.
|         How about paucal? "Paucal" is a pretty loose term
| that is generally used in such instances. Paucal can be as
| specific as Russian (2-4, and all numbers that end with
| those numbers) or as general as "a few." :Peter
|

        My conlang, which was originally for a story in a Native American
setting, has a lexical singular, paucal, and plural. I think I still have
the emails from that.

        I've also been pecking at the book "Cambridge Language Survey of
Native North America" (a rather expensive but superb set of books for
conlangers), and last weekend I read about number. It gave an example of an
Amerindian language (I think Kaosati[? I think in the Muskogee family]) that
has paucal forms for most people and family terms. I think the paucal was
2-4. (Also, this language has different lexical number sets for different
types of nouns. People and relatives have singular, paucal, and multiple.
Most inanimate object have singular, dual, and plural. Some nouns have one
singular/dual, and a plural.)

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