| 1. | Therefore, English cannot be said to have singulative number.
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| 2. | Singulative markers are found throughout the Nilo-Saharan languages.
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| 3. | The other system of number is the singulative.
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| 4. | Greenberg's linguistic universal # 35 implies that no language is purely singulative-collective.
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| 5. | These cases are described with the terms " collective number " and " singulative number ".
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| 6. | However, English has no productive process of forming singulative nouns ( just phrases such as " a grain of rice " ).
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| 7. | Some nouns are marked with a singulative suffix, some with a plural suffix, some with both, and a few with irregular stems for each number.
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