"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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Hauptverfasser:	Dali, Myriam (VerfasserIn), Mathieu, Eric, 1967- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]
Schriftenreihe:	Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 269.
Schlagworte:	Grammar, Comparative and general > Number. Nombre (Linguistique) Grammar, Comparative and general > Number
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	"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"--
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (x, 153 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9789027259646 902725964X
ISSN:	0166-0829 ;