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Inflectional morphology as lexeme formant: evidence from Breton
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Duals as a subcase of cohesive plurals (paucals)
(25) N one
N-PL one natural collection (not necessarily pair)
N-PL-PL collection not in natural groups
a /mød/ 'thumb'
/mød-ew/ 'thumbs of one person'
/mød-uw-i:r/ 'thumbs of several persons'
b /pat/ 'paw, leg of a piece of furniture'
/pat-ew/ 'paws of one animal, legs of one piece of furniture'
/pat-uw-i:r/ 'paws of several animals, legs of several pieces of furniture'
c /deãt/ 'tooth'
/dənt-ew/ 'denture'
/dənt-uw-i:r/ 'dentures' (Ternes 1970:200-201)
(26) NPL
NPL-PL (Trépos 1956:225)
a dilhad 'suite of clothes' ('l'ensemble des pièces qui habillent une personne')
b dilhaj-ou 'clothes' in suites or loose (as in 'a dealer of old clothes')
(27) double pluralization beyond "collectives" (NOT general, NOT productive)
a dour 'water'
dour-you 'streams'
dour-ei-er 'flooding, water streaming after heavy rains'
b park 'field'
park-ou 'fields'
park-ei-er 'countryside, field landscape' (Trépos 1956:266)
(park-ou ma breur 'my brother's fields'; galoupad ar park-ei-er 'to run across the
fields')
c koad-où 'woods'
koad-ei-er 'woods, forests in general' (cf. a house in the woods / *forests)
d ed-où 'flour'
ed-ei-er 'wheats, cereals' (Hemon 1995:24)
(cf. also deverbal mass plurals in (5) above)
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