The Oxford handbook of grammatical number / edited by Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Jenny Doetjes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cabredo Hofherr, Patricia, 1970- editor.

Doetjes, Jenny, editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks in linguistics

Oxford handbooks online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Number.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 771 pages).

Other Title:

Handbook of grammatical number

Grammatical number

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

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 problems surrounding the analysis of grammatical number: Part I presents the background and foundational notions, Part II the morphological, semantic, and syntactic aspects, and Part III the different means of expressing plurality in the event domain. The final part offers fifteen case studies that include in-depth discussion of grammatical number phenomena in a range of typologically diverse languages, written by - or in collaboration with - native speakers linguists or based on extensive fieldwork.

Contents:

Introduction / Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Jenny Doetjes

Number and numeral classifiers / Jenny Doetjes

Lexical plurals / Artemis Alexiadou

Collective nouns / Hanna de Vries

Singulative systems / Myriam Dali, Eric Mathieu

Nominal number and language pathologies / Britta Biedermann, Nora Fieder, Karen Smith-Lock

Verbal plurality cross-linguistically / Patricia Cabredo Hofherr

Multiple events and 'N preposition N' / Sigrid Beck

Multiple event readings and <i>occasional</i>-type adjectives / Berit Gehrke

Multiple event readings with dependent indefinites / Donka F. Farkas

Dual in Standard and Syrian Arabic / Nisrine Al-Zahre

Semantic approaches to number / Jakub Dotlačil

Dual in Slovenian / Franc Marušič, Rok Žaucer

Inverse number in Dagaare / Scott Grimm

Japanese -'tati' and generalized associative plurals / Satoshi Tomioka

Non-inflectional plural in Yucatec Maya: Syntax and processing / Lindsay Butler

Bare nominals and number in Brazilian Portuguese / Marcelo Ferreira

Nominal number in Cushitic / Maarten Mous

Noun classes and plurality in Bantu Languages / Lutz Marten

Countability and number without number inflection: Evidence from Haitian Creole / Moles Paul, Anne Zribi-Hertz, Herby Glaude

Psycholinguistics of mass and count in Yudja / Suzi Lima

Verbal number in Chadic, with special reference to Hausa / Malte Zimmermann

Number and the mass-count distinction / Alan Bale

Dependent numerals in Kaqchikel / Robert Henderson

Number in sign languages / Roland Pfau, Markus Steinbach

Number in Marori / I Wayan Arka

Number in Balinese / I Wayan Arka, Mary Dalrymple

Number and quantity expressions / Jenny Doetjes

Individuation: Number marking languages vs classifier languages / Pierina Cheung

Number in the mental lexicon / Niels O. Schiller, Rinus Verdonschot

Nominal number morphology / Patricia Cabredo Hofherr

The syntax of number markers / Martina Wiltschko

Bare nouns and number / Henriëtte de Swart.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 5, 2021).

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Print version :

ISBN:

9780191837043 (ebook) :

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