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Verbal Number and Grammatical Relations in Tagle

Faits de Langues, 2020
Abstract In Tagle, verbal number, as realized by singular and plural stems, has not only aspectual functions in expressing single and multiple events. Verbal number also serves as a morphosyntactic device encoding specific grammatical relations : The selection of a singular or plural stem is sensitive to the number of the intransitive subject (S ...
Angelika Jakobi, Ali Ibrahim, Gumma Ibrahim Gulfan   +2 more
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Countability and grammatical number

2020
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to define number categories as government classes, and to interpret said categories semantically against models which are rich enough to support the desired interpretations. Defining number categories as government classes in terms of their cooccurrence with numerals leads to a system of five ...
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Grammatical number is sufficiently explained by communicative needs

Cognitive Neuropsychology, 2020
Franzon, Zanini and Rugani offer a useful clarification of their viewpoint expressed in earlier work. (Franzon et al., 2020; Franson et al.
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Сравнительный анализ концептуальной плексности и грамматического числа

2023
The aim of the research is, first, to explain conceptually the differences in grammatical number of some Russian and English words, and second, on the basis of linguistic experimentation, to demonstrate in what way (if any) grammatical number in English differs from conceptual plexity.
Lavrova, Natalia, Kozmin, Alexander, Builova, Irina   +2 more
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Grammatical Number and the Scale of Individuation

Language, 2018
A central debate in the literature on grammatical number systems and nominal semantics is whether the countable/noncountable contrast is ontologically based or ultimately arbitrary. This article examines this question in light of several languages that express three or more categories of grammatical number, in particular including a collective category
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The Processing of Grammatical Gender and Number in Spanish

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1999
The aim of the present study is to explore the representation and processing of inflectional morphology in Spanish. Experiment 1 compared the access time for words from the same base morpheme contrasted by the surface frequency of the masculine and feminine form, i.e., masculine-dominant items and feminine-dominant items.
Alberto Dominguez, Fernando Cuetos, Juan Segui   +2 more
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Grammatical Number in English Nouns

1992
Apart from the coverage given to it in the grammars, number in English nouns has received relatively little attention, especially in the area of theoretical considerations. Guided by the principles of psychomechanics, Hirtle (1982a) put forth a fairly elaborate theory of number in English nouns.
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JUDGMENTS OF GRAMMATICALITY OF JAPANESE BITRANSITIVE SENTENCES WITH A DIFFERING NUMBER OF ARGUMENTS

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2001
This study explored the linguistic intuition of Japanese speakers when they judged the grammaticality of isolated simple bitransitive sentences. The role of the number of arguments and the manner of presenting sentences—whether or not the number of arguments increased across judgment trials—in determining the judged grammaticality was examined ...
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THE GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NUMBER IN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE

Ижтимоий-гуманитар фанларнинг долзарб муаммолари / Актуальные проблемы социально-гуманитарных наук / Actual Problems of Humanities and Social Sciences.
This article explores the grammatical category of number in the German language, focusing on the ways in which number is expressed, including its syntactic, morphological, and semantic aspects. The study of the German number system reveals its complexity, with distinctions between singular, plural, and dual forms, as well as the intricacies of their ...
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Effects of the grammatical representation of number on cognition in bilinguals

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2006
Research investigating the relationship between language and cognition (Lucy, 1992b) shows that speakers of languages with grammatical number marking (e.g. English) judge differences in the number of countable objects as more significant than differences in the number or amount of non-countable substances. On the other hand, speakers of languages which
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