Number in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2022

Number in the World's Languages

A Comparative Handbook

Edited by: Paolo Acquaviva and Michael Daniel

Volume 5 in the series Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110622713

Overview
Contents

About this book

The strong development in research on grammatical number in recent years has created a need for a unified perspective. The different frameworks, the ramifications of the theoretical questions, and the diversity of phenomena across typological systems, make this a significant challenge.

This book addresses the challenge with a series of in-depth analyses of number across a typologically diverse sample, unified by a common set of descriptive and analytic questions from a semantic, morphological, syntactic, and discourse perspective. Each case study is devoted to a single language, or in a few cases to a language group. They are written by specialists who can rely on first-hand data or on material of difficult access, and can place the phenomena in the context of the respective system. The studies are preceded and concluded by critical overviews which frame the discussion and identify the main results and open questions.

With specialist chapters breaking new ground, this book will help number specialists relate their results to other theoretical and empirical domains, and it will provide a reliable guide to all linguists and other researchers interested in number.

empirically-focused and presenting a wealth of first-hand data
covers languages from many different linguistic families and areas
all contributions are based on the same questionnaire

Author information

Paolo Acquaviva, University College Dublin, Ireland. Michael Daniel, National Research University HSE, Moscow, Russia.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of authors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1 Number in the World’s Languages: Configuring the variation space Paolo Acquaviva and Michael Daniel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Africa
2 Number in Eastern Dan Valentin Vydrin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
3 Number marking in Karko and Nilo-Saharan Angelika Jakobi and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
4 Number in Tswana Denis Creissels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
II Europe and Middle East
5 Number in Arabic Abdelkader Fassi Fehri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
6 Number in Occitan Xavier Bach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
7 Number in Slovenian Adrian Stegovec Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
8 Number in West Circassian Irina Bagirokova, Yury Lander and Paul Phelan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
III Northern Eurasia
9 Number in Ket (Yeniseian) Edward Vajda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
10 Number in Nganasan Valentin Gusev and Beáta Wagner-Nagy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
11 Number in Nivkh Ekaterina Gruzdeva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
IV Pacific and Australia
12 Number in Gooniyandi William B. McGregor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427
13 Number in Indonesian David Gil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
14 Number in Japonic Family Michinori Shimoji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	505
15 Number in the Languages of the Lower Sepik Family William A. Foley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	529
16 Number in Marori Wayan Arka and Mary Dalrymple Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	577
V Americas
17 Number in the languages of South America Olga Krasnoukhova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	609
18 The category of number in Kakataibo (Panoan) Roberto Zariquiey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	671
19 Grammatical simplexity: Number in Kiowa Daniel Harbour and Andrew McKenzie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	693
20 Number in Mohawk (Iroquoian) Marianne Mithun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	729
VI Further perspectives on linguistic diversity
21 Contact languages: A survey Viveka Velupillai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	767
22 Number in Russian Sign Language Vadim Kimmelman, Svetlana Burkova and Elizaveta Filimonova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	805
23 Number in grammar: results and perspectives Paolo Acquaviva and Michael Daniel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	833
Terms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	911
Languages and language families Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	917
Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	927

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Researchers intrested in Typology, Historical Linguistics and General Linguistics,
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 936
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 29
- Coloured Illustrations: 7
- Tables: 129
Keywords: Grammatical Number; Morphology; Syntax; Linguistic Typology

eBook

Published: June 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110622713

Hardcover

Published: June 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110560695