Plural marking with 'òtúro' in Ògè

This paper provides an analysis of the syntax of plural marking with òtúro in Ògè, a language of the Benue-Congo region spoken in Nigeria. Recent research has investigated lexical plural (optional) systems where some or all of the plural morphemes are realizations of some syntactic heads other than the Num-head. This paper proposes that plural marking on nouns in Ògè instantiates a D-head. This proposal accounts for two things: first, òtúro is in complementary distribution with the (in)definite article; second, plural marked nouns are construed as definite.