Numerals marking plural of count nouns

3.6.4 Numerals marking plural of count nouns

Just like any quantifier, a cardinal numeral may mark the plurality of a noun or a NP. The following examples illustrate this. 3.89 ma ʈar dʑapa sum ʈhʏt-na khur-a bet si-kuk TE7 car hundred three drag-NFNT1 carry-NMLZ;Q AUX say-PROG;VIS ‘They say, “It dragged along three hundred cars.”’ This is about the flooding of Arun river. 3.90 phøt-ni mal-la tsho lhaa-ni naata ŋ-ki go-ni mal-la Tibet-ABL down-DAT lake overflow-NFNT2 Naatang-GEN head-ABL down-DAT d ʑami toŋʈak tɕik ʈhʏt-na khur-a bet si-kuk. TE7 Chinese thousand one drag-NFNT1 carry-NMLZ;Q AUX say-PROG;VIS They say, “After a lake in Tibet had overflown flood it came down via Naatang village and it dragged along one thousand Chinese men.”’ 3.91 wa kheta sum t ɕhuŋ-soŋ=o. TE9 MIR load three become-PST.VIS=NEW.INF ‘Wow, the buck wheat harvest turned out to be three loads.’ For more examples with numerals modifying count nouns see sections 4.1–4.3. Table 3.26. Plural markings on count nouns, personal pronouns, demonstratives, and NPs Morpheme tags N or NP Gloss 1PL.EXCL ŋit ‘we, us’ 1PL.EXCL-PL1 ŋis-so ‘we, us assoc. persons’ 1PL.EXCL-self-PL1 ŋit-raŋ-so ‘we ourselves assoc. persons’ 1PL.INCL-self hatɕa-raŋ ‘we ourselves’ 1PL.INCL-self-PL1 hatɕa-raŋ-so ‘we ourselves assoc. persons’ 1PL.INCL-self Quant hatɕa-raŋ khajet ‘we ourselves’ 2PL khit ‘you’ 2PL Quant khit khajet ‘you more than just few’ 2PL-PL1 khis-so ‘you assoc.’ 2PL-self-PL1 khit- raŋ-so ‘you yourselves assoc.’ 2PL-self-PL1 Quant khit- raŋ-so khajet ‘you yourselves assoc., more than just few’ 3SG-PL1 roo-so ‘they assoc.’ 3SG-PL1 Quant roo-so khajet ‘they assoc, more than just few’ 3SG-self-PL1 roo- raŋ-so ‘they themselves assoc’ 3SG-self-PL1 Quant roo- raŋ-so khajet ‘they themselves assoc, more than just few’ 3PL khopa ‘they’ 3PL-PL1 khopa-so ‘they assoc.’ this-PL2 hi-pa ‘these, they’ that-PL2 u-pa ‘those, they’ this-PL2 Quant hi-pa khajet ‘these more than just few’ that-PL2 Quant u-pa khajet ‘those more than just few’ N DEF-PL2 mi di-pa ‘men identified as participants on stage’ N Quant mi khajet ‘men generic’ N Quant DEF mi khajet di ‘men identified as participants on stage’ N Quant mi kurik ‘all men’ N Quant Quant mi khajet kurik ‘all men all inclusive’ N Quant mi tshetmit ‘innumerable number of men’ N Quant khim døntøt ‘a lot of houses’ N Quant phitsa thamtɕet ‘all children all inclusive’ N Quant simtɕen gak ‘many wild animals’ N Quant dawa gatɕen ‘many months’ NP Quant mi tɕhijaa khajet ‘influential or powerful men’

3.6.5 Quantifiers modifying mass nouns