Plural Classifier xie and Grammatical Number in Mandarin Chinese [PDF]
Author(s): Wu, Yi-Chi | Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of Mandarin Chinese as having both singular classifiers and a plural classifier, xie. The Num head is the cross-linguistic locus for number marking, hosting both plural suffixes (such as English -s) and classifiers.
Y. Wu
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Grammatical Number from an Ecological Perspective, Focused on the “Here-Now-I-Real” [PDF]
This article shows, using the example of number agreement, that an ecological perspective with a focus on the situation of the utterance (i.e. here-now-I-real) is an effective way to understand differences in grammar among individual languages and to ...
Sadanobu Toshiyuki
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SEMANTIC AND STYLISTIC FEATURES OF THE GRAMMATICAL NUMBER FORM [PDF]
This article describes the stylistic and semantic features of the grammatical form of a number.
I.Ahmadjonov A.Dadajonov
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Grammatical Gender and Number Agreement in Spanish: An ERP Comparison [PDF]
Abstract The role of grammatical gender and number representations in syntactic processes during reading in Spanish was studied using the event-related potentials (ERPs) technique. The electroencephalogram was recorded with a dense array of 128 electrodes while Spanish speakers read word pairs (Experiment 1) or sentences (Experiment 2 ...
Horacio A. Barber, Manuel Carreiras
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A functional account of grammatical number in English reflexive pronouns
Number morphology appears twice in English reflexive pronouns, first on the pronominal-possessive portion of the form, and second on the inflectional ending. Usually, the two number markings co-vary, but ‘crossed’ number forms like ourself and themself – and even myselves and herselves – are also attested.
Nancy Stern
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Experience and grammatical agreement: Statistical learning shapes number agreement production [PDF]
A robust result in research on the production of grammatical agreement is that speakers are more likely to produce an erroneous verb with phrases such as the key to the cabinets, with a singular noun followed by a plural one, than with phrases such as the keys to the cabinet, where a plural noun is followed by a singular.
Todd Haskell+2 more
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Comparative analysis of Grammatical Number System in Russian and Sanskrit [PDF]
This study provides a detailed comparison of the Grammatical Number systems in Russian and Sanskrit, two highly inflected languages from distinct language families. The research is aimed at the morphological, syntactic, and semantic characteristics of numbers in both languages, comparing them.
Chandan Suman
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Number dissimilarities facilitate the comprehension of relative clauses in children with (Grammatical) Specific Language Impairment [PDF]
This study investigates whether number dissimilarities on subject and object DPs facilitate the comprehension of subject- and object-extracted centre-embedded relative clauses in children with Grammatical Specific Language Impairment (G-SLI). We compared
Flavia Adani+3 more
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NUMBER IN UZBEK LANGUAGE
The purpose of this research article is to describe the structure, meaning, function and use of plural meanings, to determine the grammatical indicators of the plural in the history of the Uzbek language based on written sources, the linguistic features ofthe plural category in the Uzbek language and speech realization ...
Azamatova Gulnoza
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Grammatical Gender Influences Semantic Categorization and Implicit Cognition in Polish
The influence of grammatical gender on cognitive processes is an important issue in contemporary psycholinguistics and language psychology, particularly in research concerning the relations between grammar and semantics.
Romuald Polczyk, Mateusz Polak
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