The semantics and pragmatics of plurals

The semantics and pragmatics of plurals

This paper addresses the semantics and pragmatics of singular and plural nominals in languages that manifest a binary morphological number distinction within this category. We review the main challenges such an account has to meet, and develop an analysis which treats the plural morpheme as semantic...

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Main Authors: Henriëtte de Swart, Donka Farkas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linguistic Society of America 2010-03-01
Series:Semantics and Pragmatics
Subjects:
singular, plural, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, markedness, optimality theory, strongest meaning hypothesis, Hungarian
Online Access:http://semprag.org/article/view/130

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