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5 - Divide and Counter

from Large-Scale Architectures for Count and Mass

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2021

By
Hagit Borer  and
Sarah Ouwayda
Edited by
Tibor Kiss ,
Francis Jeffry Pelletier  and
Halima Husić
Tibor Kiss
Affiliation:
Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany
Francis Jeffry Pelletier
Affiliation:
University of Alberta
Halima Husić
Affiliation:
Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany
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Summary

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the properties and distribution of the classifier -ah in Arabic. The investigation will turn out to shed light on the count-mass distinction in general, and in Arabic in particular, and will result in identifying two distinct types of plural markers, differing in their semantics, in their morphology, and in their syntax, one corresponding roughly to the type of plural marker found in English, at times referred to as inclusive, and the other returning solely exclusive plural reading. It will also result in motivating a structural distinction between quantifiers and cardinals, with the latter merging below the former.

Keywords

Classifier in ArabicDistinct types of plural markersNumber-neutral readings
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Things and Stuff
The Semantics of the Count-Mass Distinction
 , pp. 115 - 148
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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