Universal #549

Legacy number: 549

 Number  547
 Original  In languages with singular/dual/plural systems in the noun, if the plural is used in any instances where a set of two objects is designated, the plural may be used with the numeral for 2.
 Standardized  Provided the number marking of nouns distinguishes singular, dual, and plural,
IF the plural is used in any instances where a set of two objects is designated, THEN the plural can be used on nouns in construction with the numeral ‘two’.
 Keywords  number, dual, plural, numeral
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  56 languages mentioned in Greenberg 1978a
 Source  Greenberg 1978a: 282 (#41)

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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
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