Editing Singulative number (section)

== Plurative ==
In some cases, in addition to the collective and singulative forms, a third form, called the "plurative" in the terminology of some scholars, is distinguished from the collective. The collective form, in these cases, denotes multiple items as a class while the plurative denotes them as individuals. Compare, for example, "people" in "People are funny" with "people" in "the people in this room", though in English the same plural form is used for both purposes.

Example: In Arabic, for ''samak'', "fish":<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fehri|first=Abdelkader Fassi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LldnDwAAQBAJ&q=plurative&pg=PA9|title=Constructing Feminine to Mean: Gender, Number, Numeral, and Quantifier Extensions in Arabic|date=2018-08-15|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-4985-7456-3|pages=9|language=en}}</ref>

* ''samak'', collective form, fish in general
* ''samak-a(t)'', ''samak-e,'' singulative, a single fish
* ''ʔasmaak'', plurative, as in "many fish" or "three fish"