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A Theory of Distributed Number
Myriam DaliEric Mathieu
出版John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021-08-15
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Syntax
ISBN902725964X9789027259646
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xB85EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.