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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825899703321

Autore

Dali Myriam

Titolo

A theory of distributed number / Myriam Dali, Eric Mathieu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, [2021]

©2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (167 pages)

Collana

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today ; volume 269

Altri autori (Persone)

MathieuEric <1967->

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Number

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The nP domain -- The lower NumP domain -- The higher NumP domain -- Broken plurals and interpretation -- Bare plurals -- Number and diachrony.

Sommario/riassunto

"The objective of this book is to develop a deeper understanding of the form and interpretation of number. Using insights from Generative syntax and Distributed Morphology, we develop a theory of distributed number, arguing that number can be associated with several functional heads and that these projections exist depending on the features they specify. In doing so, we make a strong claim for a close mapping between the syntactic structure and the semantics in the noun phrase, since each node corresponds to a different interpretation of number. Despite some technical implementations, the book is accessible to linguists working outside any particular syntax-semantic framework, since we propose generalizations that are applicable in many, if not all, models of grammar. The book focuses on Arabic, but also discusses a number of languages including English, French, Ojibwe, Blackfoot, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Turkish, Persian, and Western Armenian"--