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Aspects of Plurality in Hoan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2026

Chris Collins
Chris Collins*
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Cornell University
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Dept. of Linguistics, 216 Morrill Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 [cc42@cornell.edu]
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Abstract

In Hoan, nouns and verbs can be pluralized. This article investigates various syntactic and semantic aspects of plurality in Hoan: first, the formation of plurals of inalienable nouns, then, how the plurals of verbs (termed PLURACTIONAL VERBS) are formed in much the same way as the plurals of inalienable nouns. The phenomenon of pluractional verbs strongly supports the event argument analysis of verbal semantics.

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Language , Volume 77 , Issue 3 , September 2001, pp. 456 - 476
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Copyright © 2001 Linguistic Society of America

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