[Lexicog] lexical entries as singulars or plurals

[billposer at ALUM.MIT.EDU]

Carrier has done something like what happened to "eye" in
Ivoirian French. The southernmost dialects have lost the singular/plural
distinction in nouns (which isn't very prominent in the other
dialects as basically only nouns denoting people and dogs have
distinct singulars and plurals). Something that threw me at first
is that in these dialects it is the irregular plural "women" that
has survived as both singular and plural; the original singular
has been lost.

--
Bill Poser, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wjposer/ billposer at alum.mit.edu


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