Re: QUESTION: types of plurals, few/many
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Thursday, June 20, 2002, 2:29 |
"Karapcik, Mike" wrote:
> [1] Is this represented in any natural languages, or conlangs? I
> know many languages have single, dual, and plural (Arabic and Hawai'ian that
> I've dabbled in, and it's in my Sanskrit text book; I've read it's a fairly
> common setup), some have a trial number, and a scant few even have a quatral
> and quintal number.
There are languages with Singular/Dual/Paucal/Plural, where Paucal = "a
few", sometimes misleadingly called "Trial".
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