"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 th...

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Main Authors:	Dali, Myriam (Author), Mathieu, Éric 1967- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company [2021]
Series:	Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today volume 269
Subjects:	Morphologie Numerus Plural Nominalphrase Generative Syntax Grammar, Comparative and general / Number
Summary:	"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."
Physical Description:	x, 153 Seiten Illustrationen (schwarz-weiß) 25 cm
ISBN:	9789027209238