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| 1) Avalonian has a singulative-plurative number system | | 1) Avalonian nouns are transnumeral, number being marked on the verb for singular, paucal and plural. |
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| 2) Nouns are divided into four number classes: | | 2) Singular verbal marking is for singular instances. |
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| a) Class 1 nouns are countable. They have an inherent singular number. They take the plurative suffix -kkal to form the plural.
| | 3) Paucal verbal marking is for for multiple instances between two and five in number. |
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| b) Class 2 nouns are countable. They have an inherent plural number. They take the singulative suffix -me (-m) to form the singular. NB: -m is a word-final allomorph of -me employed after a short vowel.
| | 4) Plural verbal marking is for multiple instances six or more in number. |
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| c) Class 3 nouns are countable but have no inherent number. This class comprises all countable monosyllabic nouns and many countable loan words. They must take the singulative suffix in the singular and the plurative suffix in the plural.
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| d) Class 4 nouns are non-countable. They may optionally take singulative to indicate a small part of the whole or the plurative to indicate many parts of the whole.
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| 4) The number classes are summarised in the table below:
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| | '''Number Class'''|| '''Countable'''||'''Takes Singulative?'''||'''Takes Plurative?'''
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| |Class 1||yes||no||yes
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| |Class 2 || yes||yes||no
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| |Class 3 ||yes||yes|| yes
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| |Class 4||no||optional||optional
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| ====Case==== | | ====Case==== |