A theory of distributed number
"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 associated with several functional heads and that th...
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| Формат: | Электронная книга |
| Язык: | English |
| Публикация: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2021]
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| Серии: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 269. |
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| Online-ссылка: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
| Итог: | "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 associated with several functional heads and that these projections exist depending on the features they specify. In doing so, we make a strong claim for a close mapping between the syntactic structure and the semantics in the noun phrase, since each node corresponds to a different interpretation of number. Despite some technical implementations, the book is accessible to linguists working outside any particular syntax-semantic framework, since we propose generalizations that are applicable in many, if not all, models of grammar. The book focuses on Arabic, but also discusses a number of languages including English, French, Ojibwe, Blackfoot, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Turkish, Persian, and Western Armenian"-- |
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| Объем: | 1 online resource (x, 153 pages) illustrations. |
| Библиография: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027259646 902725964X |
| ISSN: | 0166-0829 ; |