Wikidata:Property proposal/Grammatical number
Grammatical number
[edit]Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Lexemes
| Description | Grammatical number category (singular, plural, etc.) of pronouns and certain types of nouns |
|---|---|
| Represents | grammatical number (Q104083) |
| Data type | Item |
| Domain | Lexemes with grammatical category personal pronoun (Q468801), pronoun (Q36224), or mass noun (Q489168) (and possibly plurale tantum (Q138246) if understood as part-of-speech) |
| Allowed values | singular (Q110786), plural (Q146786), dual (Q110022) and any other language-specific grammatical number features |
| Example 1 | I (L487) → singular (Q110786) |
| Example 2 | we (L483) → plural (Q146786) |
| Example 3 | measles (L227474) → plural (Q146786) (mass plurale tantum noun) |
| Example 4 | שמיים/שָׁמַיִם (L68414) → plural (Q146786) (mass plurale tantum noun) |
| Example 5 | أنتما → dual (Q110022) |
| Source | https://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/features/morphosyntactic/number/ |
Motivation
[edit]As discussed in the property proposal for "Grammatical person", grammatical properties which apply to a lexeme as a whole (i.e. to all its forms) should be stated on the lexeme, rather than repeated on every form. Thus, according to this logic, personal pronouns which have a fixed grammatical person feature should state it on the lexeme level through this property. The same applies for nouns (such as mass nouns or pluralia tantums) which have a single number form (singular or plural).
Note that this property has been suggested before but rejected due to the idea that this is not a property of lexemes but rather of forms. However, as stated above, it is a property of personal pronouns, insofar they exhibit a fixed grammatical person feature, as well as of certain nouns (typically mass nouns) which admit only a single number feature. As a general rule, whenever a grammatical feature can applies to all forms of a lexeme, it should probably be elevated to a lexeme-level statement. AGutman-WMF (talk) 11:44, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
Discussion
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Support, it goes logically with Wikidata:Property proposal/Grammatical Person (and with the same caveat, we should monitor thoroughly where and how this property). Cdlt, VIGNERON (talk) 13:28, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
- @AGutman-WMF, VIGNERON:
Done --Fralambert (talk) 03:49, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
