1. The Serbo-Croatian Paradigms

A fair number of Serbo-Croatian (SC) nouns have both specific and collective singular and plural forms. Consider for example the paradigms in (1)–(18).1 SpecSg SpecPl CollSg CollPl Gloss (1) tele telic ́ i telad teladi ‘calf’ (2) janje janjci2 janjad janjadi ‘lamb’ (3) pile pilic ́ i pilad piladi ‘chicken’ (4) unuc ̌ e unuc ̌ ic ́ i unuc ̌ ad unuc ̌ adi ‘little grandchild’ (5) ciganc ̌ e ciganc ̌ ic ́ i ciganc ̌ ad ciganc ̌ adi ‘Romany child’ (6) june junci junad junadi ‘small bullock’ (7) zvijer zvjeri zvjerad zvjeradi ‘beast’ (8) z ̌ drijebe z ̌ drjepci z ̌ drebad z ̌ drebadi ‘foal’ (9) bure bureta burad buradi ‘barrel’ (10) dugme dugmeta dugmad dugmadi ‘button’ (11) uz ̌ e uz ̌ eta uz ̌ ad uz ̌ adi ‘rope’ (12) biser biseri biserje biserja ‘pearl