2021
Nouns after numerals: singular, plural or neither?
CAHA, PavelZákladní 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
Jazyk
angličtina
Typ výsledku
Vyžádané přednášky
Obor
60203 Linguistics
Stát vydavatele
Rusko
Utajení
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Odkazy
Kód RIV
RIV/00216224:14210/21:00119302
Organizační jednotka
Filozofická fakulta
Klíčová slova anglicky
nouns; adjectives; numerals; number; agreement
Štítky
Příznaky
Mezinárodní význam
Změněno: 5. 1. 2022 17:31, doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D.
Anotace
V originále
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
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