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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Courier" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Courier;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">'Pluralia tantum' should not be confused with what I have called 'set nouns', which are attested in many of the world's languages. Set nouns are transnumeral, but do not require a numeral classifier. Instead they may appear with a collective marker (which is typically absent if the noun is modified by a numeral) or (less often) by a singulative marker, both of which are often confused with number markers as attested in e.g. Dutch or English. Furthermore, these set nouns (notice that a set can have any number of members, including one) typically trigger singular agreement on the verb, even when the NP they head contains a numeral higher than '1' or when they appear with a collective marker. For example:</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Courier" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Courier;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><u>Oromo</u> (Stroomer 1987: 107)</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Courier" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Courier;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">(1) <i>gaala lamaani sookoo d'ak'-e</i></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Courier" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Courier;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"> camel two market go-3SG.M.PAST</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Courier" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Courier;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"> 'Two camels went to the market'</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Courier" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Courier;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">See: Stroomer, Harry. 1987. <i>A comparative study of three southern Oromo dialects in Kenya: phonology, morphology and vocabulary</i> (Cushitic Language Studies 6). Hamburg: Buske.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Courier" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Courier;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">A moe detailed discussion of set nouns can be found in Chapter 2 (on 'Seinsarten') and Chapter 4.1.1.2 (on 'nominal aspect') in:</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Courier" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Courier;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Rijkhoff, Jan. 2002 (2004 Pb). <i>The noun phrase</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Jan Rijkhoff</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Lucida Grande;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><b><a href="mailto:hartmut@RUC.DK">hartmut@RUC.DK</a> writes:</b></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">What about Classical Greek neuter plural nouns which trigger singular </font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">agreement on verbs (like their singular forms)?</font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Hartmut</font></span></div>
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