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What Do We Count With Numerals? Semantic Analysis of Czech Kind-denoting and Group-denoting NPs
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Year of publication | 2013 |
Type | Article in Proceedings |
Conference | Formal Description of Slavic Languages : The Ninth Conference. Proceedings of FDSL 9, Göttingen 2011 (= Linguistik International; 28) |
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Web | http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/314014.html |
Field | Linguistics |
Keywords | numerals; formal semantics; boolean algebras |
Description | I show how distinct derivational suffixes change the meaning of the numerals which they combine with. I describe four classes of Czech numerals and their inner semantic make-up. The analysis uses formal semantic frameworks of Landman (2000) and Chierchia (1998). |
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