Full Description
This volume offers detailed accounts of current research in grammatical number in language. Following a detailed introduction, the chapters in the first three parts of the book explore the multiple research questions in the field and the complex problems surrounding the analysis of grammatical number: Part I presents the background and foundational notions, Part II the morphological, semantic, and syntactic aspects, and Part III the different means of expressing plurality in the event domain.
The final part offers fifteen case studies that include in-depth discussion of grammatical number phenomena in a range of typologically diverse languages, written by - or in collaboration with - native speakers linguists or based on extensive fieldwork. The volume draws on work from a range of subdisciplines - including morphology, syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics - and will be a valuable resource for students and scholars in all areas of theoretical, descriptive, and experimental linguistics.
Contents
1: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Jenny Doetjes: Introduction
Part I: Foundations
2: Jakub Dotlačil: Semantic approaches to number
3: Alan Bale: Number and the mass-count distinction
4: Jenny Doetjes: Number and quantity expressions
5: Pierina Cheung: Individuation: Number marking languages vs classifier languages
6: Niels O. Schiller and Rinus Verdonschot: Number in the mental lexicon
Part II: Number in the nominal domain
7: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr: Nominal number morphology
8: Martina Wiltschko: The syntax of number markers
9: Henriëtte de Swart: Bare nouns and number
10: Jenny Doetjes: Number and numeral classifiers
11: Artemis Alexiadou: Lexical plurals
12: Hanna de Vries: Collective nouns
13: Myriam Dali and Éric Mathieu: Singulative systems
14: Britta Biedermann, Nora Fieder, and Karen Smith-Lock: Nominal number and language pathologies
Part III: Number in the event domain
15: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr: Verbal plurality cross-linguistically
16: Sigrid Beck: Multiple events and 'N preposition N'
17: Berit Gehrke: Multiple event readings and occasional-type adjectives
18: Donka F. Farkas: Multiple event readings with dependent indefinites
Part IV: Case studies
19: Nisrine Al-Zahre: Dual in Standard and Syrian Arabic
20: Franc Marušič and Rok Žaucer: Dual in Slovenian
21: Scott Grimm: Inverse number in Dagaare
22: Satoshi Tomioka: Japanese -tati and generalized associative plurals
23: Lindsay Butler: Non-inflectional plural in Yucatec Maya: Syntax and processing
24: Marcelo Ferreira: Bare nominals and number in Brazilian Portuguese
25: Maarten Mous: Nominal number in Cushitic
26: Lutz Marten: Noun classes and plurality in Bantu languages
27: Moles Paul, Anne Zribi-Hertz, and Herby Glaude: Countability and number without number inflection: Evidence from Haitian Creole
28: Suzi Lima: Production and comprehension studies on the mass-count distinction in Yudja
29: Malte Zimmermann: Verbal number in Chadic, with special reference to Hausa
30: Robert Henderson: Dependent numerals in Kaqchikel
31: Roland Pfau and Markus Steinbach: Number in sign languages
32: I Wayan Arka: Number in Marori
33: I Wayan Arka and Mary Dalrymple: Number in Balinese
References
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