Grammatical number
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Grammatical number is the way numbers and counting are fitted into sentences.[1]
Most languages have ways to express differences of number.
- That apple on the table is fresh.
- Those two apples on the table are fresh.
English and other languages use number categories of singular (one) or plural (not one). Other languages do not use number as a grammatical feature.
Advanced sources[change | change source]
- Greenberg, Joseph H 1972. Numeral classifiers and substantival number: problems in the genesis of a linguistic type. Working Papers on Language Universals 9, Stanford University, pp. 1–39.
- Laycock, Henry 2005. Mass nouns, count nouns and non-count nouns. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Elsevier.
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "What is Number?", Dictionary of Linguistic Terms, SIL.