Publication details
Building Cardinal Numerals Across Languages
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The paper proposes a unified morpho-semantic account for the typological variation in form and meaning of cardinal numerals. In particular, we investigate the morphological marking of different types of cardinals and argue that despite an apparent chaos one can identify cross-linguistically stable semantic ingredients, which compositionally provide the attested patterns. We adopt the framework of Nanosyntax (Starke 2009) as a model of morphology which, when applied to the structures we propose, delivers the relevant marking patterns. |