Number Categories : Dynamics, Contact, Typology.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arbes, Deborah.

Series:

Studia Typologica [STTYP] Series

Studia Typologica [STTYP] Series ; v.32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Number.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Typology (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2023.

Summary:

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 Wagi (Beria, Saharan). For each language, the focus lies on a different aspect of number marking: In the Wagi dialect of Beria, different tonal patterns are discovered. The extinct Kamas language is analysed in terms of language contact with Russian. Number categories can also serve as a measure of loanword integration, as the study about spoken Welsh shows. The combination of articles in this volume illustrates the potential of number marking and offers insights that contribute our understanding of how grammatical number is applied and categorised in languages.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

1 The tonal marking of number on nominals in the Wagi dialect of Beria

2 Number inflection of English loanwords in Welsh

3 Two morphologies, two stress systems, shaken, not stirred: Number marking on Russian borrowings in Kamas

4 On co-plurals: Cross-linguistic evidence of competing pluralization strategies in the domain of nouns

5 Towards a typology of singulatives: Definition and overview of markers

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9783110986600

3110986604

OCLC:

1394120282