Formal approaches to number in Slavic and beyond

Formal approaches to number in Slavic and beyond PDF Author: Mojmír Dočekal
Publisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 3961103143
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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Book Description
The goal of this collective monograph is to explore the relationship between the cognitive notion of number and various grammatical devices expressing this concept in natural language with a special focus on Slavic. The book aims at investigating different morphosyntactic and semantic categories including plurality and number-marking, individuation and countability, cumulativity, distributivity and collectivity, numerals, numeral modifiers and classifiers, as well as other quantifiers. It gathers 19 contributions tackling the main themes from different theoretical and methodological perspectives in order to contribute to our understanding of cross-linguistic patterns both in Slavic and non-Slavic languages.