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The Associative Plural
Language:
Meithei
Feature:
The Associative Plural
by
Michael Daniel
and
Edith Moravcsik
Value:
Unique affixal associative plural
Examples
Sentence igt-1261:
gari - si Tombə - khoy - gi - ni
gari
vehicle
-
-
si
this
Tombə
Tomba
-
-
khoy
HUMAN.
pl
-
-
gi
gen
-
-
ni
COPULA
This car belongs to Tomba and his family.
Sentence igt-1262:
i - pa - khoy
i
1p
-
-
pa
father
-
-
khoy
HUMAN.
pl
elders
Sentence igt-1263:
Tombə - khoy - rom - g pháw - di kəmdəw - re
Tombə
Tomba
-
-
khoy
HUMAN.
pl
-
-
rom
SUBSET
-
-
g
gen
pháw
up.to
-
-
di
DLMT
kəmdəw
how
-
-
re
PERF.ASRT
How is Tomba (and his family and friends) now?
References
Chelliah 1997
cite
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