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Linguistic Inquiry Monographs: Cardinals : The Syntax and Semantics of Cardinal-Containing Expressions by Ora Matushansky and Tania Ionin (2018, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMIT Press
ISBN-100262535785
ISBN-139780262535786
eBay Product ID (ePID)2309304668
Product Key Features
Number of Pages422 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameCardinals : the Syntax and Semantics of Cardinal-Containing Expressions
Publication Year2018
SubjectLinguistics / Syntax, Number Theory, Linguistics / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaMathematics, Language Arts & Disciplines
AuthorOra Matushansky, Tania Ionin
SeriesLinguistic Inquiry Monographs
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight20.5 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2018-004431
Series Volume Number79
IllustratedYes
SynopsisAn argument that complex cardinals are not extra-linguistic but built using standard syntax and standard principles of semantic composition. In Cardinals , Tania Ionin and Ora Matushansky offer a semantic and syntactic analysis of nominal expressions containing complex cardinals (for example, two hundred and thirty-five books ). They show that complex cardinals are not an extra-linguistic phenomenon (as is often assumed) but built using standard syntax and standard principles of semantic composition. Complex cardinals can tell us as much about syntactic structure and semantic composition as other linguistic expressions. Ionin and Matushansky show that their analysis accounts for the internal composition of cardinal-containing constructions cross-linguistically, providing examples from more than fifteen languages. They demonstrate that their proposal is compatible with a variety of related phenomena, including modified numerals, measure nouns, and fractions. Ionin and Matushansky show that a semantic or syntactic account that captures the behavior of a simplex cardinal (such as five) does not automatically transfer to a complex cardinal (such as five thousand and forty-six ) and propose a compositional analysis of complex cardinals. They consider the lexical categories of simplex cardinals and their role in the construction of complex cardinals; examine in detail the numeral systems of selected languages, including Slavic and Semitic languages; discuss linguistic constructions that contain cardinals; address extra-linguistic conventions on the construction of complex cardinals; and, drawing on data from Modern Hebrew, Basque, Russian, and Dutch, show that modified numerals and partitives are compatible with their analysis.
LC Classification NumberP275.I66 2018
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