Comparativetypolog y

Она работала }- She worked } - У ишлади

Оно работало It worked


Typological category of plurality
The system of grammatical forms expressing grammatical degree (number) is termed (called) the category of plurality. This category. In comparing languages the formants indicating this category are usually added to the stem of nouns (or pronouns). We should distinguish the logical number (degree) and grammatical number. From the logical point of view proper nouns usually denote a single thing or a person. e.g.: John, Собир, London, Тыйтепа, etc. The common nouns are used to to denote common type of things, of course, logically more than one.

As we know that the category of plurality denotes more than oneness of thins , people or phenomena. Grammatically it can be based in English on the opposition of ‘zero morpheme and the suffix -s, -en, and root changing abilities of some nouns’, i.e. #|| -s, -en. In Uzbek it is based on the opposition of zero morpheme (#) and suffix -лар, i.e. # || -лар. Among the parts of speech this category is distinguished grammatically by nouns, pronouns an verbs. In comparing languages this category may also be denoted lexically by numerals. (e.g.: two, fifteen, thirty, thousand - икки, ын беш, ыттиз, юз, минг). Numerals are not used in the grammatical plural forms because in the plural form they become substuntivized i.e. they become nouns. (иккилар, олтинчилар).

It should be kept in mind that there are languages having ‘dual’ and trial’ numbers. (Cf.: OE prounouns - ic-wit-we where ‘wit’ denoted a dual number).