General Number ( Concept )
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/GeneralNumber
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|_ Linguistic Property
|_ Morphosyntactic Property
|_ Number Property
|_ General Number
Definition:
In some languages for which number is less dominant, the meaning of the noun can be expressed without reference to number. Nouns with this marking are designated as outside of the number system, as they are noncommittal as to the number of the noun that they mark. [Corbett 2000: 9-10]
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Language Code:
bsw
General number refers to a noun without reference to a number; it is outside the number system.
2009-06-04 13:28:07
2009-06-04 13:28:07
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| I watched lion. |
References:
Corbett(2000:11)
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