-
English 'foliage' vs. 'leaves'.
Singulatives are
featured in some
Semitic and
Slavic languages. In
Arabic grammar, the
singulative is
called اسم الوحدة, "noun...
- (general) gotiiččo - "hyena" (
singulative) In some
languages like Afar, few
nouns have a three-way
contrast of general/
singulative/plurative, but
nouns with...
-
single suffix being generally productive. Some
nouns are
marked with a
singulative suffix, some with a
plural suffix, some with both, and a few with irregular...
- uta 'bow',
ubavu 'rib', ufa 'crack',
unywele 'a hair' from 'a hair',
singulatives of nouns,
which are
often class 6 ('collectives') in the plural: unyoya...
- the plural, and two
endings to
indicate the
singular (technically the
singulative) of some nouns. In
spoken Welsh,
verbal features are
indicated primarily...
-
Suffixaufnahme (case stacking) Noun
class Number Singular Dual
Plural Singulative-Collective-Plurative
Specificity Universal grinder Related to
verbs ****ociated...
- 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...
- to
these uses, -t also
functions as a diminutive, pejorative, and/or
singulative marker in some languages.
Afroasiatic languages have a
variety of ways...
-
example اِشْتِرَاكِيّ ištirākiyy "socialist", it is also used for a
singulative ending that
applies to
human or
other sentient beings as in جندي jundiyy...
- Rūm (Arabic: روم [ruːm], collective;
singulative: رومي Rūmī [ˈruːmiː]; plural: أروام ʼArwām [ʔarˈwaːm]; Persian: روم Rum or رومیان Rumiyān,
singular رومی...
