Plural, the Glossary

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1. 67 relations: Adjective, Affix, Agreement (linguistics), Austronesian languages, Baltic languages, Barngarla language, Biblical Hebrew, Cambridge University Press, Chinese language, Classifier (linguistics), Clothing, Collective noun, Comparison (grammar), Data (word), Decimal, Demonstrative, Determiner, Double plural, Dual (grammatical number), Emu, English language, English personal pronouns, English plurals, Eye, Fraction, French language, Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Grammatical case, Grammatical gender, Grammatical number, Grammatical person, Grammatical tense, Homogeneity (semantics), Indo-European ablaut, Inflection, Japanese language, Latin, Lihir language, List of glossing abbreviations, Mass noun, Mele-Fila language, Negative number, Noun, Noun phrase, Part-of-speech tagging, Partitive plural, Personal pronoun, Pluractionality, Plural quantification, Plurale tantum, ... Expand index (17 more) »

2. Grammatical number

Adjective

An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.

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Affix

In linguistics, an affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form.

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Agreement (linguistics)

In linguistics, agreement or concord (abbreviated) occurs when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates.

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Austronesian languages

The Austronesian languages are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples).

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Baltic languages

The Baltic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively or as a second language by a population of about 6.5–7.0 million people mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Sea in Europe.

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Barngarla language

Barngarla, formerly known as Parnkalla, is an Aboriginal language of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.

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Biblical Hebrew

Biblical Hebrew (rtl ʿīḇrîṯ miqrāʾîṯ or rtl ləšôn ham-miqrāʾ), also called Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanitic branch of the Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the Land of Israel, roughly west of the Jordan River and east of the Mediterranean Sea.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.

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Classifier (linguistics)

A classifier (abbreviated or) is a word or affix that accompanies nouns and can be considered to "classify" a noun depending on some characteristics (e.g. humanness, animacy, sex, shape, social status) of its referent.

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Clothing

Clothing (also known as clothes, garments, dress, apparel, or attire) is any item worn on the body.

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Collective noun

In linguistics, a collective noun is a word referring to a collection of things taken as a whole. Plural and collective noun are grammatical number.

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Comparison (grammar)

Comparison is a feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are rendered in an inflected or periphrastic way to indicate a comparative degree, property, quality, or quantity of a corresponding word, phrase, or clause.

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Data (word)

The word data is most often used as a singular collective mass noun in educated everyday usage.

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Decimal

The decimal numeral system (also called the base-ten positional numeral system and denary or decanary) is the standard system for denoting integer and non-integer numbers.

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Demonstrative

Demonstratives (abbreviated) are words, such as this and that, used to indicate which entities are being referred to and to distinguish those entities from others.

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Determiner

Determiner, also called determinative (abbreviated), is a term used in some models of grammatical description to describe a word or affix belonging to a class of noun modifiers.

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Double plural

A double plural is a plural form to which an extra suffix has been added, mainly because the original plural suffix (or other variation) had become unproductive and therefore irregular. Plural and double plural are grammatical number.

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Dual (grammatical number)

Dual (abbreviated) is a grammatical number that some languages use in addition to singular and plural. Plural and Dual (grammatical number) are grammatical number.

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Emu

The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is a species of flightless bird endemic to Australia, where it is the tallest native bird.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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English personal pronouns

The English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and grammatical gender.

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English plurals

English plurals include the plural forms of English nouns and English determiners. Plural and English plurals are grammatical number.

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Eye

An eye is a sensory organ that allows an organism to perceive visual information.

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Fraction

A fraction (from fractus, "broken") represents a part of a whole or, more generally, any number of equal parts.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Ghil'ad Zuckermann

Ghil'ad Zuckermann (גלעד צוקרמן) is an Israeli-born language revivalist and linguist who works in contact linguistics, lexicology and the study of language, culture and identity.

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Grammatical case

A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording.

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Grammatical gender

In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns.

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Grammatical number

In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more").

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Grammatical person

In linguistics, grammatical person is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant(s) in an event; typically, the distinction is between the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), and others (third person).

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Grammatical tense

In grammar, tense is a category that expresses time reference.

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Homogeneity (semantics)

In formal semantics, homogeneity is the phenomenon where plural expressions that seem to mean "all" negate to "none" rather than "not all".

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Indo-European ablaut

In linguistics, the Indo-European ablaut (from German Ablaut) is a system of apophony (regular vowel variations) in the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE).

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Inflection

In linguistic morphology, inflection (less commonly, inflexion) is a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness.

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Japanese language

is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Lihir language

The Lihir language (Lir) is an Austronesian language spoken in the Lihir island group, in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.

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List of glossing abbreviations

This article lists common abbreviations for grammatical terms that are used in linguistic interlinear glossing of oral languages in English.

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Mass noun

In linguistics, a mass noun, uncountable noun, non-count noun, uncount noun, or just uncountable, is a noun with the syntactic property that any quantity of it is treated as an undifferentiated unit, rather than as something with discrete elements. Plural and mass noun are grammatical number.

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Mele-Fila language

Mele-Fila (Ifira-Mele) is a Polynesian language spoken in Mele and Ifira on the island of Efate in Vanuatu.

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Negative number

In mathematics, a negative number represents an opposite.

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Noun

In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas.

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Noun phrase

A noun phrase – or NP or nominal (phrase) – is a phrase that usually has a noun or pronoun as its head, and has the same grammatical functions as a noun.

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Part-of-speech tagging

In corpus linguistics, part-of-speech tagging (POS tagging or PoS tagging or POST), also called grammatical tagging is the process of marking up a word in a text (corpus) as corresponding to a particular part of speech, based on both its definition and its context.

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Partitive plural

Partitive plural is a grammatical number that is used to modify a noun which represents a part of some whole amount, as opposed to the comprehensive plural, used when the noun represents the total amount of something. Plural and Partitive plural are grammatical number.

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Personal pronoun

Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – first person (as I), second person (as you), or third person (as he, she, it, they).

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Pluractionality

In linguistics, pluractionality, or verbal number, if not used in its aspectual sense, is a grammatical aspect that indicates that the action or participants of a verb is, or are, plural.

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Plural quantification

In mathematics and logic, plural quantification is the theory that an individual variable x may take on plural, as well as singular, values.

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Plurale tantum

A paren) is a noun that appears only in the plural form and does not have a singular variant for referring to a single object. In a less strict usage of the term, it can also refer to nouns whose singular form is rarely used. In English, pluralia tantum are often words that denote objects that occur or function as pairs or sets, such as spectacles, trousers, pants, scissors, clothes, or genitals. Plural and plurale tantum are grammatical number.

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Polish language

Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.

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Pronoun

In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase.

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Quantity

Quantity or amount is a property that can exist as a multitude or magnitude, which illustrate discontinuity and continuity.

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Reduplicated plural

A reduplicated plural is a grammatical form achieved by the superfluous use of a second plural ending. Plural and reduplicated plural are grammatical number.

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Reduplication

In linguistics, reduplication is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word (or part of it) or even the whole word is repeated exactly or with a slight change.

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Romance plurals

The plurals of the Romance languages, and their historical origin and development, are an important area of study in comparative and historical Romance linguistics. Plural and Romance plurals are grammatical number.

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Royal we

The royal we, majestic plural (pluralis majestatis), or royal plural is the use of a plural pronoun (or corresponding plural-inflected verb forms) used by a single person who is a monarch or holds a high office to refer to themselves. Plural and royal we are grammatical number.

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Russian language

Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.

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Singulative number

In linguistics, singulative number and collective number (abbreviated and) are terms used when the grammatical number for multiple items is the unmarked form of a noun, and the noun is specially marked to indicate a single item. Plural and singulative number are grammatical number.

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Sketch Engine

Sketch Engine is a corpus manager and text analysis software developed by Lexical Computing since 2003.

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Slavic languages

The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants.

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Slovene language

Slovene or Slovenian (slovenščina) is a South Slavic language of the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family.

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Subject (grammar)

A subject is one of the two main parts of a sentence (the other being the predicate, which modifies the subject).

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Suffix

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.

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Sursurunga language

Sursurunga is an Oceanic language of New Ireland.

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Synesis

In linguistics, synesis is a traditional grammatical/rhetorical term referring to agreement (the change of a word form based on words relating to it) due to meaning. Plural and synesis are grammatical number.

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Verb

A verb is a word (part of speech) that in syntax generally conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand).

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See also

Grammatical number

• Broken plural
• Collective noun
• Count noun
• Diachronics of plural inflection in the Gallo-Italic languages
• Double plural
• Dual (grammatical number)
• English plurals
• Generic antecedent
• Generic you
• Grammatical conjugation
• Grammatical number
• La Spezia–Rimini Line
• Mass noun
• Nosism
• Partitive case
• Partitive plural
• Plural
• Plurale tantum
• Pluralis excellentiae
• Pronouns
• Reduplicated plural
• Romance plurals
• Royal we
• Singular they
• Singulative number
• Synesis
• T–V distinction

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural

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