The Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number

This volume offers detailed accounts of current research in grammatical number in language. Following a detailed introduction, the chapters in the first three parts of the book explore the multiple research questions in the field and the complex problems surrounding the analysis of grammatical number: Part I presents the background and foundational notions, Part II the morpholo...

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This volume offers detailed accounts of current research in grammatical number in language. Following a detailed introduction, the chapters in the first three parts of the book explore the multiple research questions in the field and the complex problems surrounding the analysis of grammatical number: Part I presents the background and foundational notions, Part II the morphological, semantic, and syntactic aspects, and Part III the different means of expressing plurality in the event domain.

The final part offers fifteen case studies that include in-depth discussion of grammatical number phenomena in a range of typologically diverse languages, written by - or in collaboration with - native speakers linguists or based on extensive fieldwork. The volume draws on work from a range of subdisciplines - including morphology, syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics - and will be a valuable resource for students and scholars in all areas of theoretical, descriptive, and experimental linguistics.

Edited by Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Researcher, CNRS, Paris 8, and Jenny Doetjes, Professor of Semantics and Language Variation, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics

Patricia Cabredo Hofherr is a Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Her work examines the interaction between morphology, syntax, and semantics. Her recent research focuses on c...

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Edited by Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Researcher, CNRS, Paris 8, and Jenny Doetjes, Professor of Semantics and Language Variation, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics

Patricia Cabredo Hofherr is a Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Her work examines the interaction between morphology, syntax, and semantics. Her recent research focuses on cross-linguistic variation in argument backgrounding strategies, including passives and indefinites, and on the distributive dependencies involving event pluralities.

Jenny Doetjes is Professor of Semantics and Language Variation at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her research concentrates on cross-linguistic variation and similarity in relation to semantics and cognition. She has worked on various phenomena across typologically different languages, including the count-mass distinction, quantity expressions, the relation between quantity and gradability, and wh-in situ questions.

Contributors:

Artemis Alexiadou, Humboldt University Berlin

Nisrine Al-Zahre, EHESS Paris

I Wayan Arka, The Australian National University

Alan Bale, Concordia University

Sigrid Beck, University of Tübingen

Britta Biedermann, Curtin University

Lindsay Butler, Boston University

Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, CNRS Paris

Pierina Chung, Nanyang Technological University

Mary Dalrymple, University of Oxford

Myriam Dali, University of Ottawa

Jenny Doetjes, Leiden University

Jakub Dotlačil, University of Amsterdam

Donka F. Farkas, University of California Santa Cruz

Marcelo Ferreira, University of São Paulo

Nora Fiedler, Humboldt University Berlin

Berit Gehrke, Humboldt University Berlin

Herby Glaude, Université d'État d'Haïti

Robert Henderson, University of Arizona

Suzi Lima, University of Toronto

Lutz Marten, SOAS, University of London

Franc Marušič, University of Nova Gorica

Éric Mathieu, University of Ottawa

Maarten Mous, Leiden University

Moles Paul, University of Paris 8

Roland Pfau, University of Amsterdam

Niels O. Schiller, Leiden University

Karen Smith-Lock, Macquarie University

Markus Steinbach, Georg August University Göttingen

Henriëtte de Swart, Utrecht University

Rinus G. Verdonschot, Hiroshima University

Hanna de Vries, University of York

Martina Wiltschko, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Rok Žaucer, University of Nova Gorica

Malte Zimmermann, University of Potsdam

Anne Zribi-Hertz, University of Paris 8

1:Introduction, Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Jenny Doetjes
Part I: Foundations
2:Semantic approaches to number, Jakub Dotlačil
3:Number and the mass-count distinction, Alan Bale
4:Number and quantity expressions, Jenny Doetjes
5:Individuation: Number marking languages vs classifier languages, Pierina Cheung
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1:Introduction, Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Jenny Doetjes
Part I: Foundations
2:Semantic approaches to number, Jakub Dotlačil
3:Number and the mass-count distinction, Alan Bale
4:Number and quantity expressions, Jenny Doetjes
5:Individuation: Number marking languages vs classifier languages, Pierina Cheung
6:Number in the mental lexicon, Niels O. Schiller and Rinus Verdonschot
Part II: Number in the nominal domain
7:Nominal number morphology, Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
8:The syntax of number markers, Martina Wiltschko
9:Bare nouns and number, Henriëtte de Swart
10:Number and numeral classifiers, Jenny Doetjes
11:Lexical plurals, Artemis Alexiadou
12:Collective nouns, Hanna de Vries
13:Singulative systems, Myriam Dali and Éric Mathieu
14:Nominal number and language pathologies, Britta Biedermann, Nora Fieder, and Karen Smith-Lock
Part III: Number in the event domain
15:Verbal plurality cross-linguistically, Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
16:Multiple events and 'N preposition N', Sigrid Beck
17:Multiple event readings and occasional-type adjectives, Berit Gehrke
18:Multiple event readings with dependent indefinites, Donka F. Farkas
Part IV: Case studies
19:Dual in Standard and Syrian Arabic, Nisrine Al-Zahre
20:Dual in Slovenian, Franc Marušič and Rok Žaucer
21:Inverse number in Dagaare, Scott Grimm
22:Japanese -tati and generalized associative plurals, Satoshi Tomioka
23:Non-inflectional plural in Yucatec Maya: Syntax and processing, Lindsay Butler
24:Bare nominals and number in Brazilian Portuguese, Marcelo Ferreira
25:Nominal number in Cushitic, Maarten Mous
26:Noun classes and plurality in Bantu languages, Lutz Marten
27:Countability and number without number inflection: Evidence from Haitian Creole, Moles Paul, Anne Zribi-Hertz, and Herby Glaude
28:Psycholinguistics of mass and count in Yudja, Suzi Lima
29:Verbal number in Chadic, with special reference to Hausa, Malte Zimmermann
30:Dependent numerals in Kaqchikel, Robert Henderson
31:Number in sign languages, Roland Pfau and Markus Steinbach
32:Number in Marori, I Wayan Arka
33:Number in Balinese, I Wayan Arka and Mary Dalrymple
References
Index
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