Hi!
Pavel Iosad <edricson@...> writes:
>...
> > cat.PLURAL = (several) cats
> > cat.PLURAL.DUAL = two (groups/sets/...) of (several) cats
> >
> > The 'any-number' makes collectives without constraining the number,
> > so:
> > cat.PLURAL.ANY = (groups/group) of (several) cats
>
> Nifty! But doesn't that call for two separate grammatical categories?
:-) Erm, yes, but I managed to get around this, see below.
> you'd need these grammemes to be in complementary distribution to be of
> the same category. Cf. Breton _lagad_ 'eye', _daoulagad_ 'two eyes',
> _lagado