I personally don't care for "encodes" in this context, though there are many good examples (see examples of both below). If you use "encodes," I think you have to use the definite article: "THE paucal plural."

The **agreement marker encodes PNG features** and appears on ... also makes a distinction between the inclusive and exclusive forms of the first person plural ...
ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/proj/Sprachbau/pronouns/Abstracts/hany_babu.html

The **direct marker encodes that the higher argument is more salient**, ... The Algonquian verb has plural suffixes, which for the 3rd person are differentiated ...
web.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/~wdl/WhyMorph.pdf - Similar pages

[PDF] The challenge of inverse morphology 1. Introduction
**The direct marker encodes the more natural constellation** in which the subject is more salient ... (The expression of 1st person plural takes preference.) ...
web.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/~wdl/challenge-inverse.pdf

plural subjects, directional suxes and the habitual aspect suxes make only a ... **each tense marker encodes partial information nonidentical with the other**, ...
www.stanford.edu/~bresnan/nc-ppr.ps

**the postposition marker encodes the Genitive Case**, its syntactic property of ... ‘[þt’ usually attaches to a singular noun and turns it into a plural noun. ...
www.ircs.upenn.edu/download/techreports/2005/05-03.pdf

of **overt polarity marker signifies affirmative**. ... as the Inferential (before the Plural marker), whereas the Future follows the Plural. marker, cf.: ...
www.stanford.edu/~emaslova/Publications/Evidential.pdf

In (5) and (6) the verbs carry the singular and the plural object ... **The partitive marker signifies that** the rope under discussion has been cut from a ...
www.atypon-link.com/WDG/doi/pdf/10.1515/LING.2006.024