A Minimalist Account of Numerals
Numerals participate in the expression of a wide range of operations, including mass, volume, degree, ordering, counting, and arithmetic calculations. This raises the questions of what they denote semantically and how they are derived morpho-syntactically. Although a number of theories have been adv...
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BÜTEK Boğaziçi Eğitim Turizm Teknopark Uygulama ve Dan. Hiz. San. Tic. A.Ş.
2022-12-01
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| description | Numerals participate in the expression of a wide range of operations, including mass, volume, degree, ordering, counting, and arithmetic calculations. This raises the questions of what they denote semantically and how they are derived morpho-syntactically. Although a number of theories have been advanced regarding their semantics, studies on the syntactic side are rather scarce. Further, the syntactic accounts of numerals date back to GB period, calling for a reinterpretation of their conclusions under Minimalist considerations. This study attempts to develop a syntactic account of numerals under Minimalist desiderata. It is proposed that numerals are number-denoting type n objects, derived from two primitives: saturated DIGITs of type n, and unsaturated BASEs of type , instrumental in the derivation of simplex and complex numerals, respectively. This view is demonstrated to account for a wide range of distributional and interpretive possibilities of numerals as well as provide principled reasons for why some plausible forms are consistently unattested across languages. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ca6c690ba2d644999ad98bbe9629cd692023-02-15T16:13:00ZengBÜTEK Boğaziçi Eğitim Turizm Teknopark Uygulama ve Dan. Hiz. San. Tic. A.Ş.Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi1300-85522587-09392022-12-0133211114410.18492/dad.1016340 A Minimalist Account of Numerals Tacettin TURGAY 0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2587-6928Kırklareli UniversityNumerals participate in the expression of a wide range of operations, including mass, volume, degree, ordering, counting, and arithmetic calculations. This raises the questions of what they denote semantically and how they are derived morpho-syntactically. Although a number of theories have been advanced regarding their semantics, studies on the syntactic side are rather scarce. Further, the syntactic accounts of numerals date back to GB period, calling for a reinterpretation of their conclusions under Minimalist considerations. This study attempts to develop a syntactic account of numerals under Minimalist desiderata. It is proposed that numerals are number-denoting type n objects, derived from two primitives: saturated DIGITs of type n, and unsaturated BASEs of type , instrumental in the derivation of simplex and complex numerals, respectively. This view is demonstrated to account for a wide range of distributional and interpretive possibilities of numerals as well as provide principled reasons for why some plausible forms are consistently unattested across languages.http://dad.boun.edu.tr/tr/download/article-file/2052961numeralsdigitbasepakcaging strategyphrase structure rules |
| spellingShingle | Tacettin TURGAY A Minimalist Account of Numerals Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi numerals digit base pakcaging strategy phrase structure rules |
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| title_full_unstemmed | A Minimalist Account of Numerals |
| title_short | A Minimalist Account of Numerals |
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