The Story of Polish 'Para': From a Group Noun to a Measure Word and Indefinite Quantifier

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angličtina
Original language name
The Story of Polish 'Para': From a Group Noun to a Measure Word and Indefinite Quantifier
Original language description
In this paper I trace the semantic change the Polish measure word 'para' ('pair') and quantifier 'parę' ('several, a few') have undergone. I show that both words originated from the Old Polish group noun 'par' ('pair') and explore both historical and Modern Polish data concerning puzzles related to the distribution and interpretation of 'para' and 'parę' in phrases with regular count nouns and pluralia tantum. Building on Krifka?s (1995) theory of common nouns which I extend with the group-forming operation developed by Landman (1989, 2000) I propose a semantic analysis of the Modern Polish measure word 'para' which can be further used to reconstruct its semantic development. The analysis assumes distinct denotations of singular and plural regular count nouns on the one hand and mass nouns and pluralia tantum on the other.
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2015
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S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Slavic Languages in the Perspective of Formal Grammar. Proceedings of FDSL 10.5, Brno 2014
ISBN
9783631662519
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Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
325-344
Publisher name
Peter Lang
Place of publication
Frankfurt am Main
Event location
Brno
Event date
Dec 4, 2014
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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