The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F24%3A00139629" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/24:00139629 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_032457" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_032457</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_032457" target="_blank" >10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_032457</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Number
Original language description
While language faculty (understood as a capacity for grammar and semantics) is unique to humans and has no analogue in the biological world, the number sense, i.e., the mental capacity to manipulate quantities (not necessarily symbolically), is attested also in nonhuman species, and thus it arguably relates to an evolutionary ancient cognitive feature. Therefore, it is not surprising that most of the world's natural languages developed formal means to express the conceptual distinction between "one" and "more than one"; in this respect, Slavic languages are no different. This entry discusses the basic morphosyntactic and semantic properties of Slavic number systems. It introduces the grammatical category of number and discusses its expression across Slavic, focusing first on the singular and the plural and then on the dual. Treated next are markedness and the way in which grammatical number relates to the semantic notions of singular and plural reference. Several types of expressions related to the notion of minor number are also discussed, including collectives and singulatives and so-called count forms in quantifier phrases.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA24-10073S" target="_blank" >GA24-10073S: Classifying classifiers</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online
ISBN
9789004326897
Number of pages of the result
18
Pages from-to
1-18
Number of pages of the book
1000
Publisher name
Brill
Place of publication
Leiden
UT code for WoS chapter
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