Abstract
This chapter presents a survey of number in four colloquial varieties of Indonesian: Riau Indonesian, Jakarta Indonesian, Kupang Malay and Papuan Malay. In general, number plays a very minor role in the basic grammatical organization of the language. Nevertheless, a wide range of strategies are available for the optional expression of number, with a substantial amount of cross-dialectal variation. Some of the number-related constructions discussed in this chapter include reduplication, numeral classifiers, a plural word, associative plurals, inclusory pronouns, dual pronouns and argument indexation.
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