• In linguistics, singulative number and collective number (abbreviated SGV and COL) are terms used when the grammatical number for multiple items is the...
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    The determiner has two senses: numerical one (I have one apple) and singulative one (one day I'll do it). One is also a gender-neutral pronoun used to...
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  • plurative. For example, in Pular: bare - "dog(s)" (general, any number) bareeru - "dog" (singulative) bareeji - "dogs" (plurative) However, some languages only...
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  • Marking of number on nouns in Murle is complex, with no single suffix being generally productive. Some nouns are marked with a singulative suffix, some...
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  • single item. These cases are described with the terms collective number and singulative number. Some languages may possess a massive plural and a numerative...
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    with ekə, and do not mark the plural. This can be interpreted as a singulative number. On the left hand side of the table, plurals are longer than singulars...
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    Plurale tantum (category Grammatical number)
    Classifier (linguistics) Defective verb English plurals Mass noun Singulative number Synesis Wiktionary lists of pluralia tantum Harper, Douglas. "fasces"...
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  • unusual feature of Brythonic languages is that of collective and singulative number. The base form of some Cornish nouns denotes a class or group, often...
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  • Grammar Phonology Morphology colloquial literary Syntax Numerals Singulative number Orthography Welsh Braille Ỽ Y with loop Dictionaries Geiriadur Prifysgol...
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  • of a word meaning 'down'. Not all authors follow this convention. Person-number-gender is often further abbreviated, in which case the elements are not...
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  • language, Thomas's dream was to establish a new newspaper in Welsh. The first number was published on 4 December 1932, with John Eilian as editor. The paper...
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  • Dual (abbreviated DU) is a grammatical number that some languages use in addition to singular and plural. When a noun or pronoun appears in dual form,...
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  • mutations. In addition to the singular–plural system, it also has a singulative–collective system, similar to Welsh. Unlike the other Brittonic languages...
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    vowel i. Nouns with a singulative suffix lost their singulative meaning and return to a group of words unspecified for number. -sa (m) and -ttii (f)...
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  • construction Possession Suffixaufnahme (case stacking) Noun class Number Singular Dual Plural Singulative-Collective-Plurative Specificity Universal grinder Related...
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    Ket language (category Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from May 2021)
    (individuated plural) or -ŋ (collective plural), the plural suffixes. The old singulative suffix -s is present on certain singular forms, however, like the stem...
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    Central Sudanic, commonly reflected in a tripartite general-singulative-plurative number system, triggered the development or elaboration of the noun-class...
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  • construction Possession Suffixaufnahme (case stacking) Noun class Number Singular Dual Plural Singulative-Collective-Plurative Specificity Universal grinder Related...
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  • construction Possession Suffixaufnahme (case stacking) Noun class Number Singular Dual Plural Singulative-Collective-Plurative Specificity Universal grinder Related...
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  • construction Possession Suffixaufnahme (case stacking) Noun class Number Singular Dual Plural Singulative-Collective-Plurative Specificity Universal grinder Related...
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  • In linguistics, pluractionality, or verbal number, if not used in its aspectual sense, is a grammatical aspect that indicates that the action or participants...
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    the plural, and two endings to indicate the singular (technically the singulative) of some nouns. In spoken Welsh, verbal features are indicated primarily...
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  • animate, inanimate, neuter, and more general classes. Number, varying according to the number of things. Tense, varying according to when an action takes...
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  • construction Possession Suffixaufnahme (case stacking) Noun class Number Singular Dual Plural Singulative-Collective-Plurative Specificity Universal grinder Related...
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  • Grammatical person (category Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from December 2022)
    singular and plural forms, and sometimes dual form as well (grammatical number). Some other languages use different classifying systems, especially in...
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    while others (-enti, -er, -ez, -ezh, -ezon, -i, -eg, -ell, and the singulative -enn) are feminine. The suffix -eg can be masculine or feminine. There...
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  • Noun class (redirect from Gender and number)
    are attached directly if the noun is singular, and plural and indefinite number are marked by the suffixes -eta- and -(e)ta-, respectively, before the case...
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  • language has four number systems: singulative, singular, paucal, and plural. While the singular is never marked, the other number systems are marked...
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  • adjuncts is called valency theory. Predicates have valency; they determine the number and type of arguments that can or must appear in their environment. The...
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    Celtic languages (category Language articles with speaker number undated)
    pronouns use of singulars or special forms of counted nouns, and use of a singulative suffix to make singular forms from plurals, where older singulars have...
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