Could it be that these are animals that were hunted, fished, or herded and that there was a convention that used the singular as a sort of generic plural when going after these creatures for sport or ...

Let us start with extracting from the underspecified lexical of the noun book the features of Count and Plural: First, let us suppose that the Nil feature Plural is specified as [+Pl], a rule occurrin ...

Traditionally, morphology dealt with the segmentalization of words into morphemes, and distribution of the allomorphs of a given morpheme. More recently it has come to be included in writing the ...