Re: Greenberg's Word Order Universals
| From: | Nik <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 14, 2000, 23:05 |
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Robert Hailman wrote:
> My hunch is to assume it means that the unmarked form of a noun is never
> the plural, but beyond that my comprehension falls apart.
I think it means that in all languages that grammaticalize number, there
are at least a few words wherein the plural is marked by the absence of
suffix, as in English "deer/deer"
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