Formal approaches to number in Slavic and beyond

Mojmír Dočekal   Marcin Wągiel  

Synopsis

The goal of this collective monograph is to explore the relationship between the cognitive notion of number and various grammatical devices expressing this concept in natural language with a special focus on Slavic. The book aims at investigating different morphosyntactic and semantic categories including plurality and number-marking, individuation and countability, cumulativity, distributivity and collectivity, numerals, numeral modifiers and classifiers, as well as other quantifiers. It gathers 19 contributions tackling the main themes from different theoretical and methodological perspectives in order to contribute to our understanding of cross-linguistic patterns both in Slavic and non-Slavic languages.

Chapters

  • Preface
    Mojmír Dočekal, Marcin Wągiel
    Chapter 0
  • Number in natural language from a formal perspective
    Marcin Wągiel, Mojmír Dočekal
    Chapter 1
  • Conceptual representation of lexical and grammatical number
    Evidence from SNARC and size congruity effect in the processing of Polish nouns
    Piotr Gulgowski, Joanna Błaszczak
    Chapter 2
  • Strongly non-countable nouns
    Strategies against individuality
    Scott Grimm, Ellise Moon, Adam Richman
    Chapter 3
  • Syntactic reduplication and plurality
    On some properties of NPN subjects and objects in Polish and English
    Wiktor Pskit
    Chapter 4
  • Implications of the number semantics of NP objects for the interpretation of imperfective verbs in Polish
    Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Joanna Błaszczak
    Chapter 5
  • The syntax of plural marking
    The view from bare nouns in Wolof
    Suzana Fong
    Chapter 6
  • Uniqueness and maximality in German and Polish
    A production experiment
    Radek Šimík, Christoph Demian
    Chapter 7
  • Slavic derived collective nouns as spatial and social clusters
    Marcin Wągiel
    Chapter 8
  • Conjunction particles and collective predication
    Magdalena Roszkowski
    Chapter 9
  • Cumulation cross-linguistically
    Nina Haslinger, Eva Rosina, Magdalena Roszkowski, Viola Schmitt, Valerie Wurm
    Chapter 10
  • Distinguishing belief objects
    Nina Haslinger, Viola Schmitt
    Chapter 11
  • Splitting atoms in natural language
    Andreas Haida, Tue Trinh
    Chapter 12
  • Deconstructing base numerals
    English and Polish 10, 100, and 1000
    Heidi Klockmann
    Chapter 13
  • The architecture of complex cardinals in relation to numeral classifiers
    Yuta Tatsumi
    Chapter 14
  • Even superlative modifiers
    Flóra Lili Donáti, Yasutada Sudo
    Chapter 15
  • Classifiers make a difference
    Kind interpretation and plurality in Hungarian
    Brigitta R. Schvarcz, Borbála Nemes
    Chapter 16
  • Some, most, all in a visual world study
    Barbara Tomaszewicz-Özakın
    Chapter 17
  • Group-denoting vs. counting
    Against the scalar explanation of children’s interpretation of ‘some’
    Katalin É. Kiss, Lilla Pintér, Tamás Zétényi
    Chapter 18
  • Two kinds of ‘much’ in Greek
    Mina Giannoula
    Chapter 19
  • Final words
    Mojmír Dočekal, Marcin Wągiel
    Chapter 20

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Biographies

Mojmír Dočekal, Masaryk University

Mojmír Dočekal is an associate professor at the Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages at the Masaryk University. His research interests comprise compositional semantics and experimental semantics. He has published on negation, pluralities, count-mass, and NPIs. He organized several formal linguistic conferences (FDSL, SinfonIJA, CFG) and co-edited their proceedings.

Marcin Wągiel, Masaryk University

Marcin Wągiel is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages at the Masaryk University in Brno, where he completed a Ph.D. thesis on subatomic quantification in natural language. Marcin's research areas are compositional semantics, the syntax/semantics interface including morphosemantics, and linguistic typology. He focuses mainly on quantification, plurality, collectivity and distributivity, modification, genericity, and comparison in Slavic as well as in a broader cross-linguistic perspective.

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June 21, 2021
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Open Slavic Linguistics
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Dočekal, Mojmír & Wągiel, Marcin (eds.). 2021. Formal approaches to number in Slavic and beyond. (Open Slavic Linguistics 5). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5082006
Copyright (c) 2021 Mojmír Dočekal, Marcin Wągiel

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