Number Categories
eBook - ePub

Number Categories

Dynamics, Contact, Typology

  1. 190 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Number Categories

Dynamics, Contact, Typology

About this book

The book examines the category Number from a variety of linguistic perspectives. Typological aspects of co-plurals and singulatives are introduced and number marking is analysed for three individual languages: Kamas (Samoyedic), Welsh (Celtic) and Wagi (Beria, Saharan). For each language, the focus lies on a different aspect of number marking: In the Wagi dialect of Beria, different tonal patterns are discovered. The extinct Kamas language is analysed in terms of language contact with Russian. Number categories can also serve as a measure of loanword integration, as the study about spoken Welsh shows. The combination of articles in this volume illustrates the potential of number marking and offers insights that contribute our understanding of how grammatical number is applied and categorised in languages.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. 1 The tonal marking of number on nominals in the Wagi dialect of Beria
  5. 2 Number inflection of English loanwords in Welsh
  6. 3 Two morphologies, two stress systems, shaken, not stirred Number marking on Russian borrowings in Kamas
  7. 4 On co-plurals Cross-linguistic evidence of competing pluralization strategies in the domain of nouns
  8. 5 Towards a typology of singulatives Definition and overview of markers
  9. Index