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@proceedings{1604365,
author = {Caha, Pavel and Wągiel, Marcin},
booktitle = {2nd conference on Ontology as Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics (OASIS 2), October 16-18, 2019, Nantes},
keywords = {numerals; cardinals; typology; morphosemantics; Nanosyntax},
language = {eng},
title = {Universal semantic features and the typology of cardinal numerals},
url = {http://oasis.cnrs.fr/oasis2},
year = {2019}
}
TY - CONF
ID - 1604365
AU - Caha, Pavel - Wągiel, Marcin
PY - 2019
TI - Universal semantic features and the typology of cardinal numerals
KW - numerals
KW - cardinals
KW - typology
KW - morphosemantics
KW - Nanosyntax
UR - http://oasis.cnrs.fr/oasis2
L2 - http://oasis.cnrs.fr/oasis2
N2 - The paper proposes a unified morpho-semantic account for the typological variation in form and meaning of cardinal numerals across languages. In particular, we investigate the morphological marking of different types of cardinals and argue that despite an apparent morphological chaos, it is possible to identify cross-linguistically stable semantic ingredients, which compositionally provide the attested types of numerals. We adopt the framework of Nanosyntax (Starke 2009 et seq.) as a model of morphology which, when applied to the semantic structures we propose, delivers the relevant marking patterns. The model we develop is broadly based on the idea that the meaning components are uniformly structured across languages, and they must all be pronounced, though languages differ in how they pronounce them. All cardinals share an underlying scale of natural numbers but differ in a number of operations subsequently applied to that scale.
ER -
CAHA, Pavel and Marcin WĄGIEL. Universal semantic features and the typology of cardinal numerals. In \textit{2nd conference on Ontology as Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics (OASIS 2), October 16-18, 2019, Nantes}. 2019.
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