Re: QUESTION: types of plurals, few/many
| From: | Andy Canivet <cathode_ray00@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 20, 2002, 7:28 |
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>From: "Karapcik, Mike" <KarapcM@...>
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> 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...
Andy
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