CAHA, Pavel. Nouns after numerals: singular, plural or neither? In Higher School of Economics Linguistics Colloquium. 2021.
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Original name Nouns after numerals: singular, plural or neither?
Authors CAHA, Pavel (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Higher School of Economics Linguistics Colloquium, 2021.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Requested lectures
Field of Study 60203 Linguistics
Country of publisher Russian Federation
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/21:00119302
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English nouns; adjectives; numerals; number; agreement
Tags rivok
Tags International impact
Changed by Changed by: doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D., učo 53172. Changed: 5/1/2022 17:31.
Abstract
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.
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GC21-12611J, research and development projectName: Morfologie shody (Acronym: AgroMorph)
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Russia/RFBR
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