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"none" as plural? #513

Closed nschneid closed 4 months ago

nschneid commented 4 months ago

"None" is compatible with singular or plural reference. When it triggers plural agreement on the verb, should it be tagged as NNS/Number=Plur?

Currently it's always NNS/Number=Sing (EWT, GUM).

I suppose trying to disambiguate it would be like GUM disambiguating the number of "you"...but I'm not sure it's worth it.

amir-zeldes commented 4 months ago

Mmm, my gut feeling is that this is not a morphosyntactic number category here. I could be swayed, but I would point out we don't treat committee nouns as having different morphological categories based on actual token-agreement. We could put these in the same bag. I feel 'you' is more interesting because it's part of a paradigm that does distinguish number, so it's more like disambiguating a paradigmatic syncretism.

nschneid commented 4 months ago

OK