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expressed in case forms
-и
and
–a
. This way we find out that affixal
morphemes
-и
and -
a
(genitive case forms for feminine, masculine and
neuter genders) express singularity. In word-forms городом-городами
one can easily notice
that the affixal morpheme
-ом
expresses
singularity, objectness, case, gender and
the affixal morpheme -
ами
expresses sems of plurality, objectness and case.
In English singularity is expressed by a zero morpheme, for example:
townO, playO, footO , etc. It is interesting to mark that in Uzbek as it
is in English singularity of nouns is expressed by a zero morpheme.
Further we'll use words
marked
for the presence of word form,
non-
marked
for the absence of word-form. So we can see
that the meaning
of singularity of nouns in Russian can be marked and non-marked, in
English and in Uzbek it is only non-marked. The category of plurality
in these languages is marked.
In Russian plurality of nouns can be
non-marked too
:
Nouns in
Nouns
in plural
singular
marked
Non-marked
Feminine
стрел
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