The form and meaning of numerals

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The form and meaning of numerals

WĄGIEL, Marcin

Základní údaje

Originální název

The form and meaning of numerals

Autoři

WĄGIEL, Marcin (616 Polsko, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Eastern Generative Grammar (EGG) 2022, 25-29/07/2022, Masaryk University in Brno, 2022

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Vyžádané přednášky

Obor

60203 Linguistics

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/22:00134330

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

numerals; quantification; counting; measuring; arithmetic; labeling; morphosemantics

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

Změněno: 18. 12. 2023 21:54, Mgr. Marcin Wągiel, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

I will investigate a number of topics in numeral (morpho-)semantics and corresponding part-whole structures. I will start by situating numerals as linguistic expressions in the more general context of the philosophy of numbers and the psychology of counting and we will look at various uses of basic numerals such as `five’ (1) Five cats meowed. (2) My reasons for saying this are five. (3) Five is a Fibonacci number. (4) Player number five scored a hat-trick (e.g., Bultinck 2005, Rothstein 2017, Bylinina & Nouwen 2020). I will then discuss four semantic treatments of numerals: (i) as determiners in the Generalized Quantifier Theory (Barwise & Cooper 1981), (ii) as cardinal predicates (Landman 2003), (iii) as predicate modifiers equipped with measure functions (Krifka 1989) and (iv) as degree quantifiers (Kennedy 2015) and see how they compare with respect to capturing the variety of meanings in (1)-(4). Next, I will examine cross-linguistic morphological marking patterns suggesting that numerals in fact lexicalize complex syntactic and semantic structures derived from a set of more primitive notions and consider a proposal of a unified morpho-semantic analysis based on combining compositional semantics with Nanosyntax (Wągiel & Caha 2020). Finally, I will explore a diverse, yet still mostly uncharted, land of numerical expressions other than cardinals (with an emphasis on Slavic data), e.g., English multipliers such as `double’ and `two-time’, Polish collectivizers like `dwójka’ (`group of two’), Czech taxonomic numerals such as `dvojí’ (`of two kinds’), and check whether the proposed account can help us to develop a better understanding of their form and meaning.

Návaznosti

GA20-16107S, projekt VaV

Název: Struktury část-celek napříč jazyky

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Struktury část-celek napříč jazyky

Citovat

WĄGIEL, Marcin. The form and meaning of numerals. In Eastern Generative Grammar (EGG) 2022, 25-29/07/2022, Masaryk University in Brno. 2022.

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WĄGIEL, Marcin. The form and meaning of numerals. In \textit{Eastern Generative Grammar (EGG) 2022, 25-29/07/2022, Masaryk University in Brno}. 2022.

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