Number Categories : : Dynamics, Contact, Typology /

Number Categories : : Dynamics, Contact, Typology / / ed. by Deborah Arbes.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Arbes, Deborah,
Arkhipov, Alexandre,
Compes, Isabel,
Elnur, Elsadig Omda Ibrahim,
Gayler, Katharina,
Nurmio, Silva,
Stolz, Thomas,
HerausgeberIn:
Arbes, Deborah,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Studia Typologica [STTYP] : Beihefte / Supplements STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung / Language Typology and Universals , 32
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 183 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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