![]() The obligatory existence of these pluralizers in certain contexts and their ability to appear together with CLs in NPs make Vietnamese differ from most classifier languages such as Mandarin, Korean or Japanese (whose pluralizers in general do not co-occur with CLs). ![]() Vietnamese is also a classifier language with two pluralizers: những and các. ![]() Many classifier languages have pluralizers which are often optional and portmanteau morphemes carrying more than plural features. Languages with plural inflection on noun phrases (NP) such as English, French or Italian do not have CLs while, in contrast, classifier languages tend not to have obligatory number marking. ![]()
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