Re: THEORY: Kinds of Plurals, and Methods of Indicating Them

Distributive in many languages typically implies (as the name suggests)
that the events (or entities) are distributed over space and/or time.
Many amerindian languages mark distributivity on the verb. Collectivity
implies that the events (or entities) are all in one place. I've mostly
heard of these terms with reference to events and verbal marking though,
and I can't say I'm familiar with nominal plural marking labelled
distributive or collective.

> Hello, the list.
>
> I have been looking around on Google for a little while, and have
> found a few different terms used to indicate different kinds of
> plurals.
> Among these terms are "distributive plural", "aggregate
> plural", "collective plural", "cumulative plural", and others, not
> all of which I understand, and some of which don't seem to be
> distinct, as far as I can tell, although the writers seem to think
> they may be.

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