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This paper attempts to explain why certain nouns in Arabic and Somali display more than one plural form. It argues that structural and semantic differences exist between so-called broken and sound plurals.
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A new approach to plural formation in Arabic and Somali is proposed. Plurality in internal plurals is shown to be different from that one in external plurals: internal plurals are mass and uncountable plurals while external plurals are distributive.
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This page is a summary of: On Plurals, noun phrase and num(ber)
in Moroccan Arabic and Djibouti Somali, January 2014, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/lfab.12.23lah.
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