Cardinals : the syntax and semantics of cardinal-containing expressions / Tania Ionin and Ora Matushansky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ionin, Tania, author.

Matushansky, Ora, author.

Series:

Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 79.

Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 79

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Numerals.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Cardinal numbers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"This book provides a semantic and syntactic analysis of nominal expressions containing complex cardinals (e.g., two hundred and thirty-five books), and shows that this analysis accounts for the internal composition of cardinal-containing expressions cross-linguistically, as well as a range of related phenomena. While there is much prior linguistic literature on numerals, this literature has not considered the internal composition of complex cardinals: the tacit assumption has been that any syntactic or semantic account that captures the behavior of a simplex cardinal such as five automatically transfers to a complex cardinal such as five hundred or five thousand and forty-six. We show that this assumption is unwarranted, and propose a compositional semantic analysis of complex cardinals. This book considers a wide range of issues in the syntax and semantics of cardinals, investigates a wide variety of languages which use different syntactic structures for complex cardinals, and examines related phenomena, including modified numerals, measure nouns, and fractions. The ultimate objective of this work is to show that complex cardinals are not an extra-linguistic phenomenon (as has often been assumed), but can tell us as much about syntactic structure and semantic composition as other linguistic expressions"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

2 The Semantics of Cardinals p. 11

3 Syntax-Semantics Mapping with Cardinals p. 47

4 Concord and Agreement with Cardinals p. 83

5 Additive Complex Cardinals p. 115

6 Cardinals in Slavic Languages p. 161

7 Cardinals in Other Languages p. 223

8 The Modified-Cardinal Construction p. 269

9 The Syntax of Modified Numerals p. 291

10 Partitives and Fractions p. 319.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780262349000

0262349000

OCLC:

1076543194

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