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=== Gender-numberDifferentiation === | === Gender-numberDifferentiation === | ||
Gender-number differentiation, the assignment of different grammatical genders and/or number to a lexical root, is exploited frequently to derive collective and mass nouns, and their corresponding count forms. Typically, a lexically collective or mass noun is assigned as a neuter inanimate singular noun, whilst their singulative forms are assigned to either to the third person masculine singular form, or the third person singular feminine form. The pluralization of the singulative forms usually involves the neuter animate singular form. | Gender-number differentiation, the assignment of different grammatical genders and/or number to a lexical root, is exploited frequently to derive collective and mass nouns, and their corresponding count forms. Typically, a lexically collective or mass noun is assigned as a neuter inanimate singular noun, whilst their singulative forms are assigned to either to the third person masculine singular form, or the third person singular feminine form. The pluralization of the singulative forms usually involves assigning them to the neuter animate singular form. | ||
===Reduplication=== | ===Reduplication=== | ||