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Re: Adopting a plural

From:Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 6, 2004, 22:54
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 22:44:27 -0400, Jeffrey Henning <jeffrey@...> wrote:

>So one of my conlangs did not historically mark number. Based on contact >with an "imperial" language, speakers have borrowed that language's plural >affix and sporadically apply it. Which is more likely...? >a) It means 2+, just like its source language >b) It means 2+ and that's emphatic (of some importance in the discourse) >c) It means "a great many"
I really doubt that they would borrow a plural affix at all. When they never had a need for it, it's very unlikely that they suddenly change their mind and borrow one. -- Pascal A. Kramm, author of Choton official Choton homepage: http://www.choton.org