Those two often go together, though. That’s one of the things which make this such an interesting area.keenir wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:08 amdidn't Creyeditor just explain this to you and I? its the number of events, not about number of the arguments.Ahzoh wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 1:07 am Don't mean to be snarky, but I'm frustrated by talking about things that don't need to be said. I've been conlanging for 10+ years, I know very well the ambiguity and flexibility of terminology. And I think we all agree that pluractionality is about an action itself being plural, and that results in all sorts of different semantic (aspectual) manifestations.Well no, it's not the basic meaning, the basic meaning is a plurality of action. Completeness is just one manifestation of that.
(Of course, there are many languages where pluractionality and object number are marked independently, e.g. Georgian.)