Sērija : Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL]
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Jun-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783110560695)
The strong development in research on grammatical number in recent years has created a need for a unified perspective. The different frameworks, the ramifications of the theoretical questions, and the diversity of phenomena across typological syst...Lasīt vairāk
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 associa...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Jul-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198791522)
Plural expressions found in natural languages allow us to talk about many objects simultaneously. Plural logic -- a logical system that takes plurals at face value -- has seen a surge of interest in recent years. This book explores its broader signif...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Jul-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198795858)
This volume offers detailed accounts of current research in grammatical number in language. Following a detailed introduction, the chapters in the first three parts of the book explore the multiple research questions in the field and the complex prob...Lasīt vairāk
The book is an investigation of the semantics of numericals, counting and measuring, and its connection to the mass/count distinction from a theoretical and crosslinguistic perspective. It reviews some recent major linguistic results in these topics,...Lasīt vairāk
The aim of this book is to give the first large-scale typological investigation of pluractionality in the languages of the world. Pluractionality is defined as the morphological modification of the verb to express a plurality of situations that can a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Apr-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107001275)
The use of numerals in counting differs quite dramatically across languages. Some languages grammaticalise a contrast between count nouns (three cats, three books) vs non-count or mass nouns (milk, mud), marking this distinction in different ways....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Nov-2016, Hardback, Izdevniecība: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262034739)
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Impossible Persons, Daniel Harbours comprehensive and groundbreaking formal theory of grammatical person, upends understanding of a universal and ubiquitous grammatical category. Breaking with much past work,...Lasīt vairāk
Impossible Persons, Daniel Harbours comprehensive and groundbreaking formal theory of grammatical person, upends understanding of a universal and ubiquitous grammatical category. Breaking with much past work,...Lasīt vairāk
Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley provide a natural point of entry to what for most readers will be a new subject. Plural logic deals with plural terms (Whitehead and Russell, Henry VIIIs wives, the real numbers, the square root of -1, they),...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1997, this book focuses on the semantics of definite and indefinite descriptions taking the presuppositional theory of definiteness and indefiniteness proposed by Heim as a starting point. It seeks to show that there exists a...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1990, this dissertation presents an event-based model-theoretic semantics for plural expressions in English. The author defends against counterarguments the hypothesis that distributive predicates are predicates of groups, and n...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Jan-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199687909)
This book considers how expressions involving number are used by speakers and understood by hearers. A speakers choice of expression can be a complex problem even in relatively simple-looking domains. In the case of numerical expressions, there are...Lasīt vairāk
This book considers how expressions involving number are used by speakers and understood by hearers. A speakers choice of expression can be a complex problem even in relatively simple-looking domains. In the case of numerical expressions, there are...Lasīt vairāk
This book is the outcome of several decades of research experience, with contributions by leading scholars based on long-term field research. It combines approaches from descriptive linguistics, anthropological linguistics, socio-historical studies,...Lasīt vairāk
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Plural marking, numeral classifiers and reduplication constitute the main means of quantification marking in the domain of grammar. A better understanding of the quantification strategies in the languages of China will enrich our comprehension of hu...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Dec-2012, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783110293821)
Contributors from China, Europe, and the US offer synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives on quantification in a number of languages spoken in China. Looking in turn at correlations between different types of quantification and at the ex...Lasīt vairāk
Pluralities begins with a concise introduction to recent theories of the semantics of plurals. The author argues, contrary to many of those theories, that plural discourse involves entities corresponding to sets of individuals but nothing correspo...Lasīt vairāk
Der Dual ist ein Numerus, der sich in indogermanischen wie nicht-indogermanischen Sprachen findet. Die indogermanistisch zentralen Sprachen Altgriechisch und Altindisch haben diesen Numerus in allen flektierenden Wortarten; andere Sprachen haben ihn...Lasīt vairāk
