Number Property ( Concept )
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/NumberProperty
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|_ Abstract
|_ Linguistic Property
|_ Morphosyntactic Property
|_ Number Property
Direct SubConcepts:
MultalNumber SeveralNumber SingularNumber SmallPaucalNumber PaucalNumber PluralNumber DualNumber GeneralNumber GreaterPaucalNumber GreaterPluralNumber TrialNumber
Definition:
NumberProperty is the class of properties that concern the grammatical encoding of quantity. It is often found on nouns, pronouns, and verbs and expresses count distinctions--such as 'one' or 'more than one'. The count distinctions typically, but not always, correspond to the actual count of the referents of the marked noun or Pronoun. [Crystal 1980: 245; Hartmann and Stork 1972: 155]
See Also:
Surrey Morphology Group - Number
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