David Barner and Justin Wood have studied comprehension of this linguistic concept using a setup asking children to reach into a box.
David Barner and Justin Wood have studied comprehension of this linguistic concept using a setup asking children to reach into a box. A 2000 book by Greville Corbett revived Smith-Stark's idea that each language's way of marking this concept splits the "animacy hierarchy" at some level. In Sundanese, this concept is conveyed using the infix "ar" after the first consonant. In the Hopi language and the conlang High Valyrian, some uses of it are instead taken over by the "paucal". Some Arabic words have the irregular (*) "broken" type of this form. Young kids used this inflection properly after seeing an image of a blue bird-like creature in Jean Berko Gleason's "wug test." As shown in the rightmost column of a paradigm, all Latin genitives of this type end in -um. For 10 points, identify this word form which is unmarked in the grammatical sentence "Deer saw sheep."
David Barner and Justin Wood have studied comprehension of this linguistic concept using a setup asking children to reach into a box.
plural nouns [or pluralization; or putting something in the plural; accept any answer indicating the singular-plural dichotomy or a language's grammatical number system or number of things until "infix 'ar'"]