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Topic: Broken plural

	Info and facts on 'Arabic grammar' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The plural of a noun is formed by a suffix in some cases (sound plurals), but frequently, the vowel structure of a word is changed to form the plural (broken plurals).
		There could be traces of broken plurals in other Semitic languages, but nowhere are they as widespread as in Arabic.
		Arabic has two genders (A grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness), expressed by pronominal, verbal and adjectival agreement.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ar/arabic_grammar.htm (2372 words)

	Collective Intentionality [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Bratman avoids positing a plural agent by trying to explain collective intentions in terms of individual attitudes with common contents that are distinctively social in the sense that solitary individuals could not have them.
		Plural subjects are formed when each of a set of individual agents expresses willingness to constitute, with the others, the plural subject of a goal, belief, principle of action, or other such thing, in conditions of common knowledge.
		So her analysis of plural subjecthood does not contain the technical notion of a plural subject and her analysis is not circular.
	www.iep.utm.edu /c/coll-int.htm (10298 words)

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		Semantically it broadly had the effect of pluralizing the action of the source verb -- either indicating intensity of the action of the source verb or adding an argument to the source verb -- making an intransitive transitive or a transitive causative (Moscati et al.
		The notion of rule-competition makes it possible to outline a process whereby a new proportion is derived from an older fixed pattern and whereby a new fixed pattern may then be derived by reinterpretation of a change-consistent process.
		The 'Broken' Plural Problem in Arabic and Semitic: A Study in the Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Non-Concatenative Morphology.Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
	www.aa.tufs.ac.jp /~P_aflang/TEXTS/june97/ratcliff.txt (4266 words)

	The Literary Encyclopedia
		Similarly, take care to ensure agreement in number (singular or plural) between the subject of a verb and the verb itself.
		The problem with 'interestingly', or 'it is interesting to note that', is that this you have to be very sure that what you say immediately after it does in fact justify this rhetorical flourish.
		Failure of agreement in the number of the subject of a verb (singular or plural) and in adjectives or clauses referring to the subject, or between number of the subject of the verb.
	www.litencyc.com /stylebook/stylebook.php (12214 words)

	STOUPS - Online Information article about STOUPS
		southern dialects do we find, and that under forms substantially identical, the important innovation known as the " broken plurals," consisting in the employment of certain forms, denoting abstracts, for the expression of plurals.
		All these Western Aramaic dialects, including that of the oldest inscriptions, have this feature among others in common, that they form the third See also:
		person singular masculine and the third person plural masculine and feminine in the imperfect by prefixing y, as do the other Semitic languages.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /STE_SUS/STOUPS.html (7768 words)

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