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| Subject: | Morphemes for plurals |
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| Question: |
Are there any languages whose standard method of showing plurality separates the morpheme or phrase that indicates it from the root word it refers to? |
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As you may well realize, by no means all languages make a singular/plural distinction in their grammars. But, where a language does pluralize things, I don't personally know of a case which has anything in between the indicator of plurality and the noun stem. Geoffrey Sampson |
| Reply From: | Geoffrey Richard Sampson click here to access email |
| Date: | 06-Aug-2012 |
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