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 specific instantiations or manifestations of the abstract concept. (So a noun meaning 'kindness' in the collective | *Abstract nouns: Singulative and plurative abstract nouns denote specific instantiations or manifestations of the abstract concept. (So a noun meaning 'kindness' in the collective could be rendered as 'act of kindness' in the singulative.) | ||
*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. | ||