A Theory of Distributed Number Hardback
by Myriam (University of Ottawa) Dali, Eric (University of Ottawa) Mathieu
Part of the Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today series
Hardback
Description
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.
Information
-
Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:153 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
- Publication Date:16/08/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9789027209238
Information
-
Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:153 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
- Publication Date:16/08/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9789027209238
