Nominal Plural Marker and 3rd Person Plural Pronoun (Feature 25)
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Feature Annotation
In quite a few languages, the nominal plural marker is identical to the (independent) 3rd person plural pronoun. This can of course be the case only in languages that have plural words (cf. Feature 23, “Expression of nominal plural meaning”, value 7). If your language language has no nominal plural word, please choose value 1.
Values:
2. identity: only one word for the two functions
3. differentiation: two words for the two functions
4. overlap: two words, whereby one form functions e.g. only as a pronoun and the other
as a pronoun as well as a nominal plural marker
5. identity and differentiation: three words, whereby e.g. the first functions as a
pronoun as well as a nominal plural marker; the second only as a pronoun and the third
only as a nominal plural marker.
Additional remarks
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Values
| Value | Value Annotation | |
| 1 | No nominal plural word | E.g. English, and all other languages where there are only plural affixes, or where there are no nominal plural markers |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Identity | Papiamentu nan, as in Nana bai kas. ,They went home’ vs. e kasnan ,the houses’ |
| 3 | Differentiation | Seychelles Creole bann ‘plural marker’ vs. zot ‘they’ |
| 4 | Overlap | Norf'k dem ’they’ vs. em /dem as in emgehl and demgehl, both ,the women’, or Nicaraguan Creole deh/neh, both ,they’ vs. dem ,they; plural’. |
| 5 | Identity and differentiation | |
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