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Example 19-40
gal/gals; bɔy/bɔys
gal/gal-s;
girl/girl-
pl
bɔy/bɔy-s
boy/boy-
pl
girl/girls; boy/boys
Comment:
These two words are the only ones in my corpus occasionally attested with the marginally productive pluralizing suffix
-s
.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Pichi
by
Kofi Yakpo
cite
Datapoints:
Expression of nominal plural meaning: Plural suffix
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