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- Title
Collective Nouns in Welsh: A Noun Category or a Plural Allomorph?
- Authors
Nurmio, Silva
- Abstract
A noun category in Welsh which has a shorter form for a collection/plural meaning and a suffixed singulative for a single instance has been described in the literature as both a number category and a plural allomorph, often with terminological ambiguity and blurring of boundaries between different noun types. This paper is an investigation of the features of these nouns using a number of theoretical approaches which cumulatively support the argument that collective can be considered a full number category in Welsh.
- Subjects
NOUNS; NUMBER (Grammar); MORPHOPHONEMICS; WELSH language; SUFFIXES &; prefixes (Grammar)
- Publication
Transactions of the Philological Society, 2017, Vol 115, Issue 1, p58
- ISSN
0079-1636
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-968X.12086