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Entities, events, and their parts : The semantics of multipliers in Slavic

WĄGIEL, Marcin

Basic information

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

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

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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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International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 14/4/2021 14:48, PhDr. Aleš Bičan, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

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.

Links

GA17-16111S, research and development project
Name: Formální přístupy ke gramatickému číslu ve slovanských jazycích
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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