10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PAUCAL»
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Language Typology and Language Universals: An International ...
Besides the split in the paucal, we may also find a split in the plural, with 'greater
plurals' of different types. For instance in Syrian Arabic some nouns have a plural
d3bbänät 'flies' and an additional form, the greater plural, dababTn 'many flies' ...
2
Parameters of Slavic Morphosyntax
Although most reference grammars simply state that the paucal form is genitive
singular, there is clearly no consistent analysis of the morphology of adjectives
and nouns in the scope of these numerals. The confusion lies in the fact that ...
Steven Franks Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Slavic Languages Indiana University, 1995
Systems with just a paucal in addition to singular and plural are rare. It is much
more common to find it with a dual too, giving this system: singular dual paucal
plural Here the meaning of the paucal changes to exclude two. This system is
found ...
Greville G. Corbett, 2000
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The Yimas Language of New Guinea
5.1.4 The Indication of Paucal Number If one glances back to the array of
pronouns presented in Section 3.7, he will note that Yimas actually distinguishes
four numbers in its independent pronouns: singular, dual, paucal, and plural.
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Typology and Universals
In addition to singular and plural, some languages also have a dual, a trial or
paucal (a small number) and perhaps even a quadral or larger paucal (Corbett
2000:26-30). A language with four number distinctions, including a paucal, is
Manam ...
6
Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics
Here is the paucal (Dick Hayward, personal communication). (8) luban-jaa foofe
lion-PAUCAL watched.1SING 'I watched a few lions' The paucal is used in Baiso
when referring to a small number of individuals, from two to about six. The Baiso
...
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Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language
14.1.2 Paucal Forms In general, numerals, like adjectives, agree with head
nouns1, 2: (1) tremja sarami; trem saram; trex sarov three.INSTR balls.INSTR
three.DAT balls.INSTR three.GEN balls.GEN 'with three balls; to three balls; of
three ...
Edward Keenan, Denis Paperno, 2012
There is no specific upper numerical bound on the PAUCAL (and the lower
bound depends on the other values in the system). In the Cushitic language
Bayso, nouns also have SINGULAR, PAUCAL and PLURAL (there are
GENERAL number ...
Greville G. Corbett, 2012
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Haspelmath, Martin; König, Ekkehard; Oesterreicher, Wulf; ...
However, having raised the issue of paucals, we shall first continue the analysis
of these, and only then re- turn to the question of quadrals. 2.4. The paucal The
paucal is used to refer to a small number of distinct real world entities. It is similar
...
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The Accentual Patterns of the Slavic Languages
1.1.4 The a ~ /? alternation in the paucal The paucal, which is used only in the
direct cases, has the same ending as the nom. pl. Generally the stress of the
paucal is identical with that of the sing; for example, nom. sg. brdt, vdzera; paucal:
dva ...
