Re:Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016)
by gizmo686 on Sunday May 27, 2018 @04:49PM
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Dual doesn't really help in this case. In a dual system, we would have something like:
1 pant
2 pantx
3+ pants
The problem with the words op is describing is that they should, semantically, belong to the category of 1 object, but morphologically (and syntactically) belong to the category of not-1 object. Adding a separate category for 2 objects does not address this.
1 pant
2 pantx
3+ pants
The problem with the words op is describing is that they should, semantically, belong to the category of 1 object, but morphologically (and syntactically) belong to the category of not-1 object. Adding a separate category for 2 objects does not address this.