Re: QUESTION: types of plurals, few/many

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:28, Andy Canivet wrote:
> From: "Karapcik, Mike" <KarapcM@...>
>
> >         One thing that I am planning on is having three numbers for nouns
> >and verb tenses: single, small plural, and large plural.
>
> I don't know if it's likely to occur in a natural language or not - but I
> toyed with the idea of a collective plural for my conlang, Komahren.  I
> haven't decided whether to include it or not - but basically there would be
> a singular form, a plural form (multiple objects), and a collective
> inflection for referring to groups of related objects - eg. "the police,"
> "women," "people who wear red socks on tuesdays," etc...
Well, I know such a creature occurs in Sindarin - Glamhoth for Orcs, etc.

>
> Andy
>
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