Verbal plurality and distributivity [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Brenda Laca

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Definiteness (Linguistics); Grammar, Comparative and general - Numerals; Grammar, Comparative and general - Aspect; Grammar, Comparative and general - Indirect discourse; Discourse markers; Semantics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: Cabredo HofherrPatricia <1970-> LacaBrenda
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Table of contents -- Authors' biographies -- Introduction - event plurality, verbal plurality and distributivity / Hofherr, Patricia Cabredo / Laca, Brenda -- Nominal and verbal plurality in the diachrony of the Portuguese Present Perfect / Amaral, Patrícia / Howe, Chad -- Pluractionality and accompaniment in Cuzco Quechua / Faller, Martina -- How plural can verbs be? / Fehri, Abdelkader Fassi -- Event-Based Additivity in English and Modern Hebrew / Greenberg, Yael -- On Distributivity in Karitiana / Müller, Ana / Negrão, Esmeralda -- Pluractional Verbs: An Overview / Newman, Paul -- Distributivity is not uniformly over events / Pereltsvaig, Asya -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume brings together novel analyses of verbal plurality and distributivity. The contributions draw on a wide range of new empirical data from languages as diverse as Arabic, Cusco Quechua, European Portuguese, Hausa, Karitiana, Modern Hebrew and Russian. The introductory chapter gives an overview of the central issues that underlie much recent research on the semantics of event plurality. The papers on verbal plurality explore the interaction between verbal plurality and plural arguments in Arabic and European Portuguese, the semantics of additive particles in Modern Hebrew, the semantics of a range of pluractional markers in Cusco Quechua and the morphological variability of pluractional markers cross-linguistically. The papers on distributivity examine the syntax and semantics of reduplicated numerals in Karitiana and adnominal distributive markers. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language typology.
• Titolo autorizzato: Verbal plurality and distributivity
• ISBN: 1-283-85732-4; 3-11-029350-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462636503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ; ; 546.