Non-definiteness and Plurality

Editors

Svetlana Vogeleer | Institut Libre Marie Haps, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Liliane Tasmowski | University of Antwerp

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This collection of studies by leading scholars in the field focuses on the semantics of non-definite (bare and indefinite) plural NPs. The contributions in the first part concentrate on bare plurals and their cross-linguistic counterparts. They discuss applicability of the notion of ‘semantic incorporation’ to bare plurals by contrasting them to bare singulars, with the aim of accounting for the interaction between the semantics of number and the degree of (in)dependency of the NP with respect to the verb. The articles in the second part examine the relationship between the semantics of number and the semantics of aspect. The contributions in the third part concentrate on non-definite numerical noun phrases by addressing a range of fundamental questions such as: the semantics of indefinite time-phrases, numericals in classifier- and non-classifier languages, scope interactions, the at least- and exactly-readings, referential properties of numericals. The volume will be welcomed by linguists interested in the semantics of number in non-definite NPs.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 95] 2006. vi, 358 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.95

Table of Contents

Introduction

Svetlana Vogeleer and Liliane Tasmowski | pp. 1–32

Part I. Non-definiteness, Plurality, and Incorporation

The meaningful bounds of incorporation

Greg N. Carlson | pp. 35–50

Bare nouns, number and types of incorporation

Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, Tonia Bleam and M. Teresa Espinal | pp. 51–79

The unmarked determiner

Donka F. Farkas | pp. 81–105

Bare objects in Korean: (Pseudo-)incorporation and (in)definiteness

Song-Nim Kwon and Anne Zribi-Hertz | pp. 107–132

Bare plurals in object position: Which verbs fail to give existential readings, and why?

Sheila Glasbey | pp. 133–157

Part II. Alternatives to the Incorporation Approach: Relating Non-Definiteness and Plurality to Aspect

Aspectual implications of the semantics of plural indefinites

Henriette E. de Swart | pp. 161–189

Indefinites, quantifiers and pluractionals: What scope effects tell us about event pluralities

Brenda Laca | pp. 191–217

Generic sentences and bare plurals

Jacqueline Guéron | pp. 219–234

Part III. Numerical Non-definites

Indefinite t ime phrases, in situ scope, and dual-perspective intensionality

Fred Landman | pp. 237–266

Identity of the domain of quantification for numerals

Mana Kobuchi-Philip | pp. 267–290

Scope shift with numeral indefinites: Syntax or processing?

Tanya Reinhart | pp. 291–310

Take ‘five’: The meaning and use of a number word

Bart Geurts | pp. 311–329

The semantics of paranumerals

Francis Corblin | pp. 331–353

Index | pp. 355–358

“I recommend this book to anyone interested in the recent advances in the description and theory of bare plurals, bare singulars, and numeral phrases and in the relevance of aspect in relation to these expressions.”

Eric Mathieu, University of Ottawa, in Journal of Linguistics 43, 2007

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