Publication details
Decomposing derived collectives in West Slavic: Experimental evidence from Czech and Polish
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | In this paper, we present experimental evidence concerning 3 classes of derived collectives in Czech and Polish. The results of the experiment suggest the existence of a scale of decomposability involving distinct types of collective nouns, bare plurals, and distributive quantifier phrases. We attribute the observed semantic effects to the interplay of 2 factors, i.e., agreement and animacy. |
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