Assoc: associative plural
| Values: | Yes |
In Khoekhoe, Assoc is a boolean feature of nominals: nouns, proper nouns, and pronouns. It is also an inflectional feature of other parts of speech (adjectives, determiners), and adverbs) that mark agreement with the head nominals when they follow them, and of numerals that may function as nominals. The feature tells whether the nominal appears in the associative plural form, which denotes constructions such as ‘X and such, X and others associated with X’. The associative plural is marked with the suffix -hâ. Assoc combines with either Number=Dual or Number=Plur
Yes: associative plural
Note that there is no No value. If the word does not have the associative plural morpheme -hâ, the Assoc feature will just not be mentioned in the FEAT column (which means that empty value has the No meaning).
Examples
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saruhân “cigarettes and other things (associated with smoking)”
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Adeledhân “Adelaide and the others (who live with her)”
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ǁnāhâra “that one and his companion”