| 单词 |
paucal |
| 释义 |
paucal, a. Gram.|ˈpɔːkəl|
[f. L. paucus few: see -al.]
Applied to a ‘number’ or inflected form denoting more than two but fewer than the number denoted by the plural. Hence pauˈcality.
1964R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics vi. 247 A few [languages] have four [numbers], singular, dual, trial or ‘paucal’..and plural. 1966J. E. Buse in C. E. Bazell In Memory of J. R. Firth 52 These systems relate ultimately..to the activity of counting and the resultant concepts of singularity, duality, plurality, paucality and multiplicity. Ibid. 58 Filling Place 1 in the structure is a commutation of t- and absence, the latter marking the possessed as paucal. 1973Archivum Linguisticum IV. 39 The..‘little plural’ or ‘paucal’ form xoxaat ‘a few peaches’. 1977Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 1976 XXI. ii. 217 Faced with a system like that of Fijian, where there is a further distinction between trial (or paucal) and multiple within plural (Milner 1956), the reapplication of non⁓minimal membership would have to operate within two branches of the resulting tree diagram. |
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