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Grammatical gender meets classifier semantics : Evidence from Slavic numerals

Authors

WĄGIEL Marcin

Year of publication 2023
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Annual Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics : The Stanford Meeting 2018
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

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Keywords numerals; gender; classifiers; quantification
Description The goal of this paper is to provide novel evidence revealing non-trivial constraints on the distribution of Slavic marked cardinals and indicating that such forms used as modifiers and predicates are in fact semantically complex expressions involving classifier semantics. I examine the evidence from Polish, Slovak and Bulgarian in comparison with classifier languages such as Mandarin Chinese and Japanese as well as languages with other languages with gendered numerals like Arabic. I propose a morphosemantic analysis grounded in Distributed Morphology and compositional semantics.
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