Number

Number is a category that typically corresponds to the actual quantity of the referents of a given noun.

Natural Language

In natural languages, number may be represented by grammatical affixes (such as "s" for plural, in English) or by quantifiers (such as "a couple of", "many", etc). In the UNLarium framework, the grammatical category of number may assume the following values:

UNL

Grammatical number, a morphological grammatical category indicating the quantity of referents

To be represented by attributes, if marked.

person = person
persons = person.@pl
people = people (number lexicalized)

Number attributes

@pl (plural)

books = book.@pl

children = child.@pl

livres = livre.@pl

@paucal (some)

a few books = book.@paucal

some books = book.@paucal

@multal (many)

many books = book.@multal

several books = book.@multal

@all (all)

all books = book.@all

@any (any)

any books = book.@any

@not (no)

no book = book.@not