CAHA, Pavel and Marcin WĄGIEL. Abstract counting and object counting across languages. In 21st Workshop on Roots of Pragmasemantics, February 28 - March 2, 2020, Szklarska Poręba. 2020.
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Original name Abstract counting and object counting across languages
Authors CAHA, Pavel and Marcin WĄGIEL.
Edition 21st Workshop on Roots of Pragmasemantics, February 28 - March 2, 2020, Szklarska Poręba, 2020.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 60203 Linguistics
Country of publisher Poland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW Webové stránky konference
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English numerals; cardinals; typology; morphosemantics; Nanosyntax
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Marcin Wągiel, Ph.D., učo 362974. Changed: 17. 11. 2020 11:56.
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate two different functions cardinal numerals can have, i.e., abstract counting, used in contexts like `Two times two is four', and object counting, as in `four apples'. Languages often distinguish these functions morphologically and one can describe a representative typology of formal relations between the two types. In addition to symmetric numerals, there are two kinds of asymmetric cardinals, i.e., plain asymmetric and inverse asymmetric, as well as idiosyncratic numerals with two suppletive morphological forms. We demonstrate how the typology can be derived.
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GA20-16107S, research and development projectName: Struktury část-celek napříč jazyky
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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