some languages, however, like salish halkomelem, differ from english in their syntactic categorization of plural marking. halkomelem allows for both marked and unmarked plural forms of its nouns. it also allows for the determiners to be marked or unmarked in their plurality. plural nouns and determiners in halkomelem can be freely combined as well, but it appears that if a determiner is plural in a phrase it is sufficient to pluralize the noun that it modifies: