Question

Acehnese (“ah-chay-NEEZ”) lacks this grammatical feature everywhere except in its first-personal pronouns. Classical Arabic’s word for “camel” uniquely admits eight possible options for this grammatical feature. (10[1])The (10[1])Tanoan languages Kiowa and Jemez (“HAY-mez”) feature a rare “inverse” form of this grammatical feature, which marks whether this feature has the expected status for its noun class. (-5[1])Besides recursion and color, Daniel Everett argued that the Pirahã language (-5[1])lacks both this feature (10[1])and any words for related concepts. The “paucal” (-5[2])form (10[1])of this feature is most closely approximated by the English phrase “a few.” (10[2])For 10 points, name this grammatical feature (10[1])in which words are modified according to the quantities involved, such as English’s singular and plural. ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: grammatical number [accept quantity until read; accept singular or plural until read]
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Paige CrawleyOxford BImperial B2410
Brendan BethlehemCambridge AOxford A2510
Ben LaFondCambridge BCambridge C52-5
Cormac StephensonSouthampton ANYU C63-5
Fahim AfzalCambridge DSouthampton B6710
Nathan EasowManchesterSheffield75-5
Josh HowarthWarwick BDurham75-5
Chris LevesleyWarwick ABristol7610
Ian McDowellCambridge CCambridge B8910
Cormac BeirneLSEImperial A8910
Benjamin LiuOxford CCambridge E9610
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYU CSouthampton A1130
Freddy PottsSheffieldManchester11310
Hamish CampbellDurhamWarwick B11310