Comparative Concept: number (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
number (sem)
| Typ | meaning (def) |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | number |
| Assoziiert | |
| Spraakbanken | number (sem) |
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Definition
a semantic category that is often (though not always) expressed as an inflectional category, that denotes the cardinality of a referent. Typical values for number inflections are singular, plural, and dual, although there are other rarer values. Indexation frequently indicates the number of the referent. (Section 4.4)