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Haspelmath: New page: '''Singulative''' refers to a noun (or a nominal category of the dimension of number) that denotes a single entity but is expressed by an overt marker and is derived from an unmarked p...

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New page: '''Singulative''' refers to a noun (or a nominal category of the dimension of number) that denotes a single entity but is expressed by an overt marker and is derived from an unmarked p...

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'''Singulative''' refers to a noun (or a nominal category of the dimension of [[number]]) that denotes a single entity but is expressed by an overt marker and is derived from an unmarked plural-denoting noun (as opposed to [[singular]], which denotes a single entity and is not expressed overtly, or at least not derived from an unmarked plural-denoting noun). The plural-denoting noun from which the singulative is derived is often called [[collective]].

===Example===
Welsh ''llygod-en'' 'mouse' is the singulative of the nonderived plural-denoting noun ''llygod'' 'mice'.

===Origin===
The term ''singulative'' arose in the linguistics of the ''Brythonic languages'' in the 19th century (cf. Cuzzolin 1998) and was later extended to similar phenomena in the Semitic languages.

===Reference===
*Cuzzolin, Pierluigi. 1998. Sull'origine del singolativo in Celtico, con particolare riferimento al medio Gallese. ''Archivio Glottologico Italiano'' 83.2: 121-149

===Other languages===
German [[Singulativ]] Italian [[singolativo]]

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 ===Reference===
-*Cuzzolin, Pierluigi. 1998. Sull'origine del singolativo in Celtico, con particolare riferimento al medio Gallese. ''Archivio Glottologico Italiano'' 83.2: 121-149
+*[[Cuzzolin, Pierluigi]]. 1998. Sull'origine del singolativo in Celtico, con particolare riferimento al medio Gallese. ''Archivio Glottologico Italiano'' 83.2: 121-149
 ===Other languages===