Lexical Plurals: A Morphosemantic Approach (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 19) 1st Edition by Paolo Acquaviva (PDF)

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This book explores the wide variety of cases in which the plural of nouns is lexical. When a plural is lexicalized it becomes part of what it is to know a certain word: pence, for example, is lexical because it means a plurality of a certain kind – a multiple value, not a set of physical objects like pennies – and knowing this reading is knowing the word. Languages exhibit countless examples of similar word-dependent irregularities in the form and meaning of plural, but these have never been analyzed in depth from a unified perspective. Dr. Acquaviva aims to do just that, using analytic tools from formal semantics and theoretical morphology to shed light on the relation between grammar and the lexicon. After an introduction setting out his approach he divides the book into two parts. The first gives a structured description of the ways plurality can be lexicalized with an emphasis on description and categorization. The second analyzes in depth different types of lexical pluralsin Italian, Irish, Arabic and Breton. A final chapter spells out the theoretical consequences for the analysis of the lexicon. The book is unusual in combining a broad typological classification with a unified morphological and semantic analysis based on a formal framework.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author Paolo Acquaviva is Senior Lecturer in Italian at University College, Dublin. His University of Pisa PhD dissertation, The Logical Form of Negation, was published by Garland in 1997. His published work also includes articles in Studia Linguistica, Linguistic Analysis, Linguistics, and Folia Linguistica.

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