The book examines the category Number from a variety of linguistic perspectives. Typological aspects of co-plurals and singulatives are introduced and number marking is analysed for three individual languages: Kamas (Samoyedic), Welsh (Celtic) and...Lasīt vairāk
Bringing together an international group of scholars and based on data from a number of typologically-distinct languages, this volume represents the state-of-the-art in theoretical and empirical research into countability. It will appeal to a wide au...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Aug-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783110997873)
The book examines the category Number from a variety of linguistic perspectives. Typological aspects of co-plurals and singulatives are introduced and number marking is analysed for three individual languages: Kamas (Samoyedic), Welsh (Celtic) and...Lasīt vairāk
A classical viewpoint claims that reality consists of both things and stuff , and that we need a way to discuss these aspects of reality. This is achieved by using +count terms to talk about things while using +mass terms to talk about stuff. Bringi...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
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jul-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107178663)
This book focuses on current theoretical and empirical research into countability in the nominal domain and, to a lesser extent, the verbal domain. Most studies in this book presuppose compositional semantics combined with the theory of mereology, a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Jun-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108832106)
A classical viewpoint claims that reality consists of both things and stuff , and that we need a way to discuss these aspects of reality. This is achieved by using +count terms to talk about things while using +mass terms to talk about stuff. Bringi...Lasīt vairāk
The mass-count distinction is a morpho-syntactic distinction among nouns that is generally taken to have semantic content. This content is generally taken to reflect a conceptual, cognitive, or ontological distinction and relates to philosophical and...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
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Dec-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262038737)
An argument that complex cardinals are not extra-linguistic but built using standard syntax and standard principles of semantic composition.In Cardinals, Tania Ionin and Ora Matushansky offer a semantic and syntactic analysis...Lasīt vairāk
An argument that complex cardinals are not extra-linguistic but built using standard syntax and standard principles of semantic composition. An argument that complex cardinals are not extra-linguistic but built using standard syntax and...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
Discusses the relationship between numerical thinking and the human language faculty. What constitutes our concept of numbers and makes it possible for us to work with them the way we do? Which mental faculties contribute to our grasp? What q...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Dec-2003, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521831826)
Discusses the relationship between numerical thinking and the human language faculty. What constitutes our concept of numbers and makes it possible for us to work with them the way we do? Which mental faculties contribute to our grasp? What q...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Sep-2002, Hardback, Izdevniecība: de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783484304581)
Das Spannungsfeld von Explizitheit und Sprachökonomie kennzeichnet die Morphologie ebenso wie andere sprachliche Strukturebenen. In der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Ökonomie nicht nur auf der Ebene des Untersuchungsgegenstandes das Leitmotiv, ......Lasīt vairāk
