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Corbett 2000

Corbett, Greville G. (2000). Number. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

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1. In Corbett's typology this is the transnumeral pattern: the noun is underspecified for number rather than syncretically encoding a singular or plural value through a single form . 9–11 Nominal Number: Transnumerality, -utar, and the Locus of Plurality
2. Demonstratives, property verbs, adnouns, and numerals do not change form as a function of any grammatical property of the head noun: there is no gender, case, or number agreement ; ‹consensus›. no page The Structure of the Noun Phrase
3. In Corbett's typology of number the category is verbal number proper: a value on the predicate keyed to participant or event plurality, set apart from the agreement number of a nominal controller . no page Verbal Number: Suppletive Stems and the Pluractional -pa
4. Corbett's distinction between the indexing of participant number and the marking of event or action number maps onto these two layers. no page Person–Number Interactions and Plural Agreement
5. The existential verb is one of the canonical suppletive number pairs in Hokkaido Ainu , a pattern documented cross-linguistically in . no page Existential and Locational Clauses (an / oka)