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"Quintal" in a Sentence (7 examples)
In one import license alone, the merchant in question was instructed to bring in 13,000 quintals of alum, which, snapped up by industries in England and the Low Countries, would yield the king a cool £8,666 13s 4d.
Furthermore, if the number-incorporated pronouns are analyzed as grammatically marked for number, distinct grammatical categories for trial, quadral and quintal must be posited.
In UgSL, we find a complete set of forms for dual, trial, quadral and quintal in several paradigmatic contrasts.
All in all, this suggests that in LSC the differences observed in the motion taken by exact number pronouns is not grounded in a fundamental distinction between the dual vs. the trial, the quadral and the quintal.
What Table 4 does not show is the possibility of even "quadral" and "quintal" forms, like yufopela 'you four', 'the four of you', yufaipela 'you five', 'the five of you'.
In sign languages, on the other hand, trial, quadral and quintal forms such as found in UgSL are not uncommon.
Moreover, trial, quadral and quintal forms are given an identical status as number values in the pronominal domain.
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