Verse:Mwail/Old Gloob: Difference between revisions
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*Animate nouns: have all three numbers. | *Animate nouns: have all three numbers. | ||
*Inanimate nouns: The countable inanimate nouns have all three numbers. Some inanimate nouns are mass nouns, and thus only have a generic number and a singulative number. | *Inanimate nouns: The countable inanimate nouns have all three numbers. Some inanimate nouns are mass nouns, and thus only have a generic number and a singulative number. | ||
*Abstract | *Abstract nouns: Singulative and plurative abstract nouns denote instantiations or manifestations of the abstract concept. (So while 'kindness' would be rendered in the collective number, its singulative form would mean 'act of kindness'.) | ||
*Honorific nouns: Honorific nouns are essentially abstract nouns made countable, i.e. abstract nouns in singulative and plurative forms, and their morphology generalized to the collective distinction. | |||
====Number==== | ====Number==== | ||