A Theory of Distributed Number

Authors
Myriam Dali | University of Ottawa
Eric Mathieu | University of Ottawa
HardboundAvailable
ISBN 9789027209238 | EUR 95.00 | USD 143.00
 
e-Book
ISBN 9789027259646 | EUR 95.00 | USD 143.00
 
Google Play logo
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.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 269] 2021.  xi, 153 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Table of Contents
Cited by

Cited by 2 other publications

Jaradat, Abdulazeez & Marwan Jarrah
2022. When a General Classifier Acts as a Quantifier? The Case ofĦabbit‘a Grain of’ in Jordanian Arabic. <i>WORD</i> 68:4  pp. 422 ff. DOI logo
Åfarli, Tor Anders, Mari Nygård & Brita Ramsevik Riksem
2022. Gender ‘Translation’ And Distributed Gender: Evidence From The Norwegian DP And Language Mixing*. Studia Linguistica 76:2  pp. 626 ff. DOI logo

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 20 march 2024. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CFK: Grammar, syntax

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009060: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax
ONIX Metadata
ONIX 2.1
ONIX 3.0
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2021020970 | Marc record