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Language, which gives a chance to the people living together to get along and find a common ground together, is a system that consists of sounds. Some specific classifications are done in language to express entities, objects and actions. It is the plurality concept that is involved in this classification and that creates the numerals category in world languages. Plurality is objects or concepts that are many, being more than one in terms of numbers. In languages, the entities’ numerical value created the singularity and plurality concept. In Turkish, the entities are made up of two categories which can be defined as singularity or indefinite plurality in numerical values. In Turkish, the morpheme that gives the meaning “to be more than one” to the entities is the “–lAr “ plurality affix. This affix is the first one that comes to mind when plurality or plural is mentioned and corresponds the plurality category on its own. In Turkish, what is understood from plurality is this: nouns, by taking the plurality affix corresponds with plurality concept formalistically. However, a sentence that does not include the “-lAr” affix can also carry the meaning of plurality. This situation is the consequence of a person who expresses himself in the correct way by using his mother tongue. “The word” is the subjective language that allows an individual’s thoughts to transfer and that’s why when the individual wants to express the plurality concept, he can also benefit from the sentence’s semantic meaning by going out of formal characteristics. When we approach the Plurality as a category that brings the entities a numerical value, in terms of semantics at least two concepts coming together is enough for Plurality. As a result, the plurality concept is made up of a numeral category and besides from structural plurality, semantic plurality is needed to be talked about too. |
