WĄGIEL, Marcin. Entities, events, and their parts : The semantics of multipliers in Slavic. In Radeva-Bork, Teodora; Kosta, Peter. Current Developments in Slavic Linguistics. Twenty Years After (based on selected papers from FDSL 11). Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020, p. 105-130. ISBN 978-3-631-67673-8. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-07147-4.
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Original name Entities, events, and their parts : The semantics of multipliers in Slavic
Authors WĄGIEL, Marcin (616 Poland, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Berlin, Current Developments in Slavic Linguistics. Twenty Years After (based on selected papers from FDSL 11), p. 105-130, 26 pp. 2020.
Publisher Peter Lang
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Original language English
Type of outcome Proceedings paper
Field of Study 60203 Linguistics
Country of publisher Germany
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
WWW Webové stránky publikace
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/20:00114171
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
ISBN 978-3-631-67673-8
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-07147-4
Keywords in English multipliers; subatomic quantification; counting; mereology; atomicity
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Changed by Changed by: PhDr. Aleš Bičan, Ph.D., učo 64391. Changed: 14/4/2021 14:48.
Abstract
In this chapter, I present novel data concerning quantification in the adjectival domain. I examine semantic properties of Slavic multipliers such as Polish podwójny, Czech dvojitý, Russian dvojnoj, and Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian dvostruki (all ‘double’) which seem to involve what I call subatomic quantification. Unlike cardinal numerals, multipliers do not count entities or events, but rather their particular parts. Since Slavic multipliers are derivationally complex, I argue that they are in fact compositional. Building on the system of Krifka (1989, 1990, and 1995), I propose an analysis which accounts for a representative subset of data. The main claim is that in Slavic numeral roots simply denote numbers whereas specialized morphemes restrict the domain of quantification by introducing a special measure function yielding a number of self-sufficient parts, i.e., elements which have a property of a whole, constituting an individual or event denoted by a noun.
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GA17-16111S, research and development projectName: Formální přístupy ke gramatickému číslu ve slovanských jazycích
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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