classifiers and plural marking

[Marcel Erdal]

On the question whether there are any languages for which there is a
different translation for:
>
>       (1) three musketeers
>       (2) the three musketeers
>:
Turkish has (1) UC    silah$Or
                          three musketeer
but
                    (2) UC    silah$Or - ler
                         three musketeer  PLUR
In Turkish, the plural marker is used together with numerals only if
these are a commonly known group, as German 'die Heiligen Drei Koenige',
or the 40 robbers.
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Prof. Dr. Marcel Erdal
J.W. Goethe Universitaet, FB 11, Turkologie,
Postfach 11 19 32,
D-60054 Frankfurt a.M.
Tel. +49-69-79 82 28 58, Fax. +49-69-79 82 49 74