4.1. Number
DGS uses different strategies to mark plurality on nouns. One common strategy is to use quantifiers [Lexicon 3.10.2], [Syntax 4.4] as in (a) or numerals [Lexicon 3.10.1] as in (b).
a. many book
‘many books’
b. five book
‘five books’
In addition, plurality is realized by reduplication of classifier constructions [Morphology 5]. In the DGS examples below number on nouns is marked via reduplication of a Size-and-Shape-Specifier (SASS) as in (a) or reduplication of an entity classifier as in (b).
a. paper sass++
‘Paper posters’
(based on Pfau & Steinbach, 2006: 149)
b. table book cl(]):be_located_on++
‘Books are located on the table next to each other.’
(based on Pfau & Steinbach, 2005:127)
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