"Number is the most underestimated of the grammatical categories. It is deceptively simple yet distinctions in number (as in cat versus cats) vary considerably from language to language. Some languages, for instance, make more distinctions than English, having three, four or eve…
"Number is the most underestimated of the grammatical categories. It is deceptively simple yet the number system which philosophers, logicians and many linguists take as the norm - namely the distinction between singular and plural (as in cat versus cats) - is only one of a wide…
