Universal semantic features and the typology of cardinal numerals

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14210/19:00108037
Result on the web
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Universal semantic features and the typology of cardinal numerals
Original language description
The paper proposes a unified morpho-semantic account for the typological variation in form and meaning of cardinal numerals across languages. In particular, we will investigate the morphological marking of different types of cardinals used as nominal modifiers and as singular terms referring to abstract arithmetical concepts in a number of languages, e.g., English, German, Japanese, Maltese, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Vurës and Standard Arabic. Based on the typological evidence, we will argue that despite an apparent morphological chaos, it is possible to identify cross-linguistically stable semantic ingredients, which compositionally provide the attested types of numerals. We adopt the framework of Nanosyntax as a model of morphology which, when applied to the semantic structures we propose, delivers the relevant marking patterns. The model we develop is broadly based on the idea that the meaning components are uniformly structured across languages, and they must all be pronounced, though languages differ in how they pronounce them. According to our proposal, all cardinals share an underlying scale of natural numbers but differ in a number of operations subsequently applied to that scale.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-16111S" target="_blank" >GA17-16111S: Formal Approaches to Number in Slavic Languages</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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