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1SG. 1st person of singular personal pronoun 2SG. 2nd person of singular personal pronoun 3SG 3rd person of singular personal pronoun S0 / S1 Speaker/Addressee The present paper deals with klah in contemporary Khmer. In the existing grammars and manuals (such as Gorgonief (1966), Huffman (1970), Khin Sok (2000)), klah is described as an indefinite pronoun and often considered (at least in translations) as the equivalent of some in English. However, as we will demonstrate below – through a semantic analysis of its uses and values-, klah has its own syntactic and semantic values, distinct from those of some, and is a marker of plurality (it should be recalled that in Khmer the number category is not morphologically marked). For this reason, our study of klah will come within the framework of a wider discussion about the notion of plurality in Khmer (also linked to nominal and adjectival reduplication1). Our paper endeavors to describe all the uses and values of klah without any exclusion. Firstly, it deals with the cases where klah is combined with a (count or mass) N. For these two categories of N, we will show that klah comes under two interpretations: a partition of all the instances of the N; b. the construction of a set of singular instances of the N. Secondly, we will study the cases where klah relates to a V and constructs various instances of this V. As regards reduplication, we will distinguish between two cases: a. klah in case of reduplication of the N; b. and klah reduplicated and introducing the notion of vagueness; compare: (1) cam klah remember klah “I clearly remember some of the things” (2) cam klah klah remember klah klah “I faintly remember some of the things/a few things now and then” 1 On reduplication in keeping with plurality, see Paillard (2009) ha l-