A Theory of Distributed Number
Myriam Dali and Eric Mathieu
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 269] 2021. xi, 153 pp.
Eric Mathieu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Eric Mathieu plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Variation within and across Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 41st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ottawa, 5–7 May 2011
Edited by Marie-Hélène Côté and Eric Mathieu
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 333] 2014. viii, 426 pp.
Subjects Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
2016 Les pluriels internes féminins de l’arabe tunisien Lexical plurals and beyond, Lauwers, Peter and Marie Lammert (eds.), pp. 253–271 | Article
L’objectif de cet article est de rendre compte des pluriels simples et doubles de l’arabe dans le cadre de la théorie des nominaux et de l’individuation de Borer (2005). En particulier, nous étudions ces pluriels dans les constructions où l’accord entre le verbe et le pluriel est déviant et… read more
2015 Measure words, plurality, and cross-linguistic variation Linguistic Variation 15:2, pp. 169–200 | Article
In the context of Borer’s (2005) theory of nominal classification, the aim of this paper is to explain why measure words in some languages (English, French, Hebrew) necessarily take an -s (two bottles of milk versus *two bottle of milk) while in other languages (Azeri, Persian, Ojibwe) measure… read more
2014 Nominalizations in Ojibwe Cross-linguistic Investigations of Nominalization Patterns, Paul, Ileana (ed.), pp. 3–24 | Article
The aim of this paper is to account for nominalization processes in Ojibwe including agent and non-agent nominalizations. I make two main claims: (1) in Ojibwe (even) simple nouns (result nominals, cf. Grimshaw 1990) have internal (verbal) structure; (2) agent nominals in Ojibwe are not exactly… read more
2014 Many a plural Weak Referentiality, Aguilar-Guevara, Ana, Bert Le Bruyn and Joost Zwarts (eds.), pp. 157–182 | Article
The aim of the present paper is to contribute to the literature on plurals by showing that, cross-linguistically, not all plurals are unmarked semantically. Focusing on Arabic, where the plural comes in many guises, and proposing different syntactic positions for its different manifestations, I… read more
2009 From local blocking to Cyclic Agree: The role and meaning of determiners in the history of French Determiners: Universals and variation, Ghomeshi, Jila, Ileana Paul and Martina Wiltschko (eds.), pp. 123–158 | Article
This paper shows that, rather than being necessary for argumenthood or referentiality, determiners in Old French were optional, but used in relation to discourse properties such as focus/emphasis on the one hand, and in relation to phonological/metric requirements on the other. The choice between… read more