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Conlangery #125: Grammatical Number

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The Importance of Number Marking in Pronouns

Pronouns may make different number distinction than play nouns do we've talked about that before and that's really obvious in something like chinese. Numbers also usually marked on question words and demonstratives with the proviso that the question word is more likely to behave like a noun than a pronoun so it might follow your local nouns. If you have a small number of nouns that take obligatory number marking there's a good chance at least some of them will be sepleative, which is an entirely different stem for the singular versus the plural form. Another possibility apart from singular and plural is minimal and augmented systems. Some languages i think charakey does this where you can either

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