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A Theory of Distributed Number
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English
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2021
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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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Table of contents
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List of tables
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Preface
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Abbreviations
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Chapter 1. Introduction
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Chapter 2. The nP domain
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Chapter 3. The lower NumP domain
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Chapter 4. The higher NumP domain
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Chapter 5. Broken plurals and interpretation
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Chapter 6. Bare plurals
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Chapter 7. Number and diachrony
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Chapter 8. Conclusions
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Bibliography
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Index
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