Talk:Singulative

In Russian?
In some languages, singulatives can be productively formed from collective nouns; eg Algerian Arabic — AFAICT Russian language has this feature too. (I may be wrong, I'm not a linguist)

If that's true, I think changing the examples from an obscure language with 40 million speakers to world's 8th most spoken one (with 250 million speakers) would benefit the article. --tyomitch 08:15, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I am proposing a merger of plural, nullar, trial (grammatical number), paucal, collective noun and singulative with grammatical number. Here are my reasons: A related page which is probably best left separate is the one on the dual number, which seems too large to merge with 'grammatical number'. FilipeS 14:40, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Most of those other entries have very little in them. They could easily become sections, or even paragraphs in 'grammatical number';
 * One exception is the plural entry, which does contain quite a bit, but a lot of what it has could just as well be in a general entry about 'grammatical number';
 * I think that some of what is currently in the plural article might be used to improve the quality of the 'grammatical number' article;