Rara #42

Legacy number: 42

 Number  42
 Phenomenon  number suppletion of the indefinite pronoun, with the singular form identical to the numeral 'one' and (here comes the nonesuch) the plural (and also mass) form supplied by the plural of an interrogative pronoun
 Found in  Standard German (Germanic, IE)
 Domain  morphology: inflection — suppletion
 Type  rarissimum
 Keywords  indefinite pronoun, interrogative pronoun, number
 Source  Glaser, Elvira (1992). Umbau partitiver Strukturen in der Geschichte des Deutschen. Sprachwissenschaft 17: 113-132.
Plank, Frans (1994b). The unlikely plurals of ONE in Bavarian and Miskito. In Agreement Gender Number Genitive & (EURO-TYP Working Papers VII/23), 59-79.
 Violates  none

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i.e., einer ?someone? ? welche ?some?
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Frans Plank · 21 Sep 2006
i.e., einer 'someone' – welche 'some'