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 nouns: Singulative and plurative abstract nouns denote instantiations or manifestations of the abstract concept. (So while 'kindness' would be rendered in the collective number, | *Abstract nouns: Singulative and plurative abstract nouns denote specific instantiations or manifestations of the abstract concept. (So while 'kindness' would be rendered in the collective number, it would mean 'act of kindness' in the singulative and 'acts of kindness' in the plurative.) | ||
*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. | *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. | ||