Re: USAGE: Count and mass nouns
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 18, 2004, 5:21 |
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Philippe Caquant wrote:
> So what about trial (is that the word ? I mean 3 items
> together). Much more difficult to find examples,
> except for the Holy Trinity, isn't it ? Yet there seem
> to be some languages including that concept. Is it
> justified ?
Why not? Dual doesn't *have* to be a paired set, nor is plural a
natural set, so why should other numbers have to a natural set?
ObConlang, in the first person, my Uatakassi has singular, dual
(specifically inclusive), paucal, and plural. For dual-exclusive, the
paucal is also used.
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