Nouns after numerals: singular, plural or neither?

CAHA, Pavel. Nouns after numerals: singular, plural or neither? In Higher School of Economics Linguistics Colloquium. 2021.

Základní údaje

• Originální název: Nouns after numerals: singular, plural or neither?
• Autoři: CAHA, Pavel (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí).
• Vydání: Higher School of Economics Linguistics Colloquium, 2021.

Další údaje

• Originální jazyk: angličtina
• Typ výsledku: Vyžádané přednášky
• Obor: 60203 Linguistics
• Stát vydavatele: Rusko
• Utajení: není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
• WWW: URL
• Kód RIV: RIV/00216224:14210/21:00119302
• Organizační jednotka: Filozofická fakulta
• Klíčová slova anglicky: nouns; adjectives; numerals; number; agreement
• Štítky: rivok
• Příznaky: Mezinárodní význam

Anotace

There seems to be a division among languages depending on whether numerals combine with a noun in the singular (e.g., Turkish, Estonian) or plural (e.g., English, Czech). A relatively common approach is to explain this variation by invoking the notion of a "semantic parameter." The idea is that the singular (or plural) in languages of the first type does not mean the same thing as in languages of the other type. In this talk, I suggest an alternative way of thinking about the data. According to this alternative, the noun after numerals always has a special number (call it "counting" number) that should not be unified with the singular or the plural denotation. When the counted noun looks the same as either the singular or plural, this is because the special >>> "counting" number is morphologically realized in the same way as singular or plural (syncretism). The evidence for this idea will be drawn from a variety of languages including South Saami, Serbian, Bulgarian, Ossetic, as well as a particular agreement pattern in Russian feminine paucals.

Návaznosti

• GC21-12611J, projekt VaV: Název: Morfologie shody (Akronym: AgroMorph)

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Morfologie shody, Rusko/RFBR