Wągiel, Marcin and Caha, Pavel (2021) Complex simplex numerals. Acta Linguistica Academica, 68 (4). pp. 470-515. ISSN 2559-8201
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Abstract
It is commonly assumed that basic cardinal numerals such as English three are simplex expressions whose primary function is to quantify over entities denoted by the modified NP (e.g., Kennedy 2015; Rothstein 2017; Ionin & Matushansky 2018). In this paper, we explore cross-linguistic marking patterns suggesting that cardinals in fact lexicalize complex syntactic and semantic structures derived from the primitive notion of the number scale. The evidence we will investigate comes from various morphological shapes of cardinal numerals when used to count objects and when used for abstract arithmetical counting.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | MTA KFB támogatási szerződés alapján archiválva |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | cardinal numerals, typology, morphosemantics, Nanosyntax |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PE English / anglisztika |
| Depositing User: | Katalin Andódy |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jan 2023 14:09 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Oct 2023 23:15 |
| URI: | http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/156315 |
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