Re: Nouns for things that occur in pairs

In a message dated 5/24/2008 17:22:18 PM Central Daylight Time,
rakko@CHARTER.NET writes:


> I remember reading somewhere that some languages have a special
> marking for nouns for things that normally occur in pairs. What do
> you call this phenomenon? Is it an example of grammatical number (and
> if so, what is that number called?) And does anyone how those
> markings evolved?
>
"Dual number".
No idea.

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