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One analysis of three Mandarin ‘two’s

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WĄGIEL Marcin CAHA Pavel

Year of publication 2022
Type Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Faculty of Arts

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Description We show how to account for root suppletion of the numeral 2 in colloquial Mandarin. We argue that object-counting numerals contain abstract-counting numerals and that the morphology of Mandarin is compatible with this proposal. We implement this idea using the nanosyntactic approach to spellout.
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