Questions tagged [paucal]

For questions about the paucal, denoting "a few".

The paucal is a denoting a few (depending on the language, 2–5 or 3–6 or some similar range of numbers). It can occur in nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and verbs.

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Does paucal always represent the same number range per language?

In some hypothetical language, could ten grains of rice be paucal but ten people be plural because ten grains of rice are only a few, whereas ten people are a lot? Or is paucal grammatically stricter than that and applies to an exact range per…
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