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How common is the "elliptical dual" (or plural) cross-linguistically?
This question on Latin.SE asks about the "elliptical dual", a construction where the dual number doesn't mean "two X" but instead "X and one other". For example, in the Iliad, Aíant-e Ajax-DUAL means ...
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Are there any languages with different plural forms for different numbers?
Are there any languages where there are different plural forms depending on the count?
For example:
1 cook
2 cooks
10 cooks (this would be a different word)
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Is there a difference between plurality in semantics and in morphology?
With regard to morphology a common example of a lexeme is [dog, dogs] where dogs is the plural inflexion of the lemma dog modified by the -s suffix, marking plurality.
Although I can accept that dog ...
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