Number - Constructions and Semantics

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Case studies from Africa, Amazonia, India and Oceania

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Number - Constructions and Semantics
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
List of tables, maps and figures
Tables
Table I.1. Major nominal subcategories (Rijkhoff 2002:?54)
Table II.1. Classifiers in Tariana (a selection) (adapted from Table 5.1 in Aikhenvald 2003:?89-92)
Table II.2. How classifiers help disambiguate a polysemous noun in Tariana
Table II.3. Number distinctions, and number marking in Tariana
Table II.4. Personal agreement markers in Tariana
Table II.5. Personal pronouns in Tariana
Table II.6. Number values for inanimates in Tucano and in Tariana: an illustration
Table III.1. Examples of constructions, varying in size and complexity
Table IV.1. Proforms in Kharia
Table IV.2. Markers for tam and basic voice
Table IV.3. Enclitic subject markers in the Tam/Person-syntagma
Table V.1. Two exemplary nominal declensions
Table V.2. Number terminology
Table V.3. Personal pronouns
Table V.4. Proximal ('this') demonstrative pronouns
Table V.5. Discontinuous subject agreement on affirmative indicative main verbs
Table VI.1. Numeral classifiers in Teiwa
Table VI.2. Human classifier pronouns in Teiwa
Table VI.3. Long and short subject pronouns in Teiwa
Table VI.4. Fruit/tuber classifiers in Teiwa (repeated from Table VI.1)
Table VI.5. Seeds, grains and fruits counted with bag
Table VI.6. Fruits and bunches of fruit counted without bag
Table VI.7. Dowry/bride prize items counted with bag
Table VI.8. Other artifacts counted with bag
Table VI.9. Artifacts NOT counted with bag
Table VI.10. Wooden/natural objects with long/pointed shape counted with bag
Table VI.11. Wooden/natural objects with long/pointed shape NOT counted with bag
Table VI.12. Animals counted with bag
Table VI.13. Animals NOT counted with bag
Table VI.14. The use of bag per speaker, ordered by year of birth
Table VI.15. Teiwa part-of-whole nouns with their meaning and the object they refer to
Table VI.16. Plural number words in Alor Pantar (Klamer, Schapper & Corbett to appear)
Table VI.17. Austronesian languages with numeral classifiers in eastern Indonesia
Table VII.1. Properties of count and mass nouns
Table VII.2. Numeral and possessive classifiers in Nêlêmwa and Zuanga
Table VII.3. Numeral classifiers in Nêlêmwa
Table VII.4. Pre-NP deictic and anaphoric determiners or pronouns in Nêlêmwa (salient)
Table VII.5. Post-NP determiners in Nêlêmwa (already referential, bckg)
Table VII.6. Examples of post-NP, pre-NP determiners and pronouns in Nêlêmwa
Table VIII.1. Different strategies for integrating loanwords in Baïnounk Gubëeher (GB), with one contrasting form from Baïnounk Guñaamolo (GN) and Gujaher (GJ)
Table VIII.2. Suffixed plurals and animacy in Gubëeher
Table VIII.3. Multiply marked plurals and alternative paradigm with human terms
Table VIII.4. Derivational vs. inflectional characteristics of number-marking strategies
Table VIII.5. The paradigmatic network of the Gubëeher root rac
Table VIII.6. The Gubëeher root ceen 'red' in different syntactic frames
Table VIII.7. The semantic contribution of noun class prefixes with nouns and verbal nouns in Gubëeher
Table VIII.8. Person/number morphology in the verbal paradigm
Table IX.1. Vowel quality gradation system*
Table IX.2. Distribution of the singular members of a sample of 326 nouns in the Agar dialect of Dinka
Table IX.3. The most frequent singular-plural patterns in a sample of 326 simple native nouns in the Agar dialect of Dinka
Table IX.4. Nouns with originally morphologically marked plural
Table IX.5. Nouns with originally morphologically marked singular
Table IX.6. Nouns with originally morphologically marked singular and plural
Table IX.7. Inflection of simple transitive verbs with a basically monomoraic root vowel in Dinka and Surkum
Table IX.8. Inflection of simple transitive verbs with a basically dimoraic root vowel in Dinka and Surkum
Table IX.9. Dinka cognates of Surkum nouns with an unmarked singular and a marked plural
Table IX.10. Dinka cognates of Surkum nouns with a marked singular and an unmarked plural
Table IX.11. Nouns with a morphologically collective form
Table X.1. Pairings of singulative, singular and plural-marking suffixes
Table XI.1. SBW independent pronouns
Table XI.2. Noun plurals in the Northern SBW sub-group
Table XI.3. Geji demonstratives
Table XI.4. Geji genitive pronouns
Table XI.5. Southern SBW noun plurals
Table XI.6a. Sigidi noun plurals: -s? suffix
Table XI.6b. Sigidi noun plurals: -e?s suffix
Table XI.6c. Sigidi noun plurals: apophony
Table XI.7a. Zaar regular noun plurals
Table XI.7b. Zaar irregular noun plurals
Table XI.8a. Sigidi noun plurals
Table XI.8b. Sigidi noun plurals: apophony
Table XI.8c. Sigidi noun plurals: -a?s? suffix
Table XI.9. Zaar kinship terms
Table XI.10. Zaar adjectival forms
Table XI.11. Polci imperatives
Table XI.12. Chaari imperatives
Table XI.13. Sigidi imperatives
Table XI.14a. Geji imperatives, CV verbs
Table XI.14b. Geji imperatives, CVC verbs
Table XI.15. Sigidi pluractional verbs
Table XI.16. Chaari pluractional verbs
Table XI.17. Ambiguity in SBW pronouns
Table XI.18. Proto-SBW pronouns
Table XI.19. SBW aorist subject pronouns
Table XI.20. Number in SBW
Table XII.1. Personal pronouns
Table XIII.1. The Digul Wambon body-part system
Table XIII.2. Wambon of the Winiktit area
Table XIII.3. The Mandobo numeral system
Table XIII.4. Aghu numbers
Table XIII.5. Sjiagha-Jenimu numbers
Table XIII.6. Pisa numbers
Table XIII.7. The Kombai body-part system
Table XIII.8. The Korowai body-part system
Table XIII.9. Tsaukambo and Komyandaret numerals
Table XIII.10.
Abbreviations
Preface
Chapter 1. One size fits all?
1. Introduction
2. The meanings of number
2.1 Variation
2.2 Aspect
3. Constructs and the non-canonical marking of number
4. Social and cultural aspects
4.1 Honorifics
4.2 Numerals
4.3 Trade and diplomacy
5. How this volume is organised
References
Chapter 2. Number and noun categorisation
1. Introducing the topic
2. Number and reference classification in north-west Amazonia: A bird's eye view
3. Number, animacy and reference classification in Tariana
3.1 Number distinctions and the categorisation of nominals
3.2 More on number agreement
3.3 Multiple number marking
4. Interim summary: What is special about the Tariana number system?
5. Tariana and its areal context
6. Looking further afield
7. To sum up
References
Chapter 3. Pluractionality and the distribution of number marking across categories
1. Background to the present study
2. Plural arguments and plural events in Maban (Nilo-Saharan)
3. From iterative marking to number marking in Maasai (Nilo-Saharan)
4. Pluractional marking as non-canonical number marking
References
Chapter 4. Figuratively speaking - number in Kharia
1. Introduction
1.1 The Case-syntagma
1.2 The tam/Person-syntagma
2. Number
2.1 The dual and plural in Kharia
3. Number and indexical order
3.1 Associative functions of the dual and plural
3.2 Honorificity
3.3 Approximative plural
4. Summary and outlook
References
Chapter 5. Number in Kambaata
1. Introduction
2. Number marking on common nouns
2.1 Number terminology
2.2 Number morphology
2.3 Functions of number morphemes
2.4 Summary
3. Number marking on proper nouns
4. Number marking on pronouns
5. Number agreement on nominal modifiers
6. Number agreement on verbs
7. Number in Kambaata: Derivation vs. inflection
References
Chapter 6. The history of numeral classifiers in Teiwa (Papuan)
1. Introduction
2. Overview of Teiwa classifiers
2.1 The human classifier -man
2.2 The fruit shape classifiers
2.3 The general classifier bag 'clf' & 'seed'
2.4 Summary
3. The development of Teiwa classifiers
4. Classifiers and number neutral nouns
5. Teiwa classifiers in their areal context
6. Summary and conclusions
References
Chapter 7. Number and numeration in Nêlêmwa and Zuanga (New Caledonia)
1. Introduction
1.1 A brief presentation of Nêlêmwa and Zuanga
1.2 Number and numeration
2. Numeration and noun categories
2.1 Mass and count nouns
2.2 Paired entities
2.3 Collective NPs in Nêlêmwa
2.4 Associative NPs in Nêlêmwa
3. Classifiers and quantifiers
3.1 Count nouns: Classifiers and numerals
3.2 A brief note on the numeral system
3.3 Classifiers: Sortal, mensural-configurational and partitive
3.4 Choice and variation of classifier
4. Number, indefiniteness, genericity and referentiality
4.1 Bare nouns, indefinites and generics in Nêlêmwa
4.2 Plural nouns and indefiniteness in Nêlêmwa
4.3 Hyperonyms, generic nouns and indefiniteness in Nêlêmwa
5. Existential predications and indefinite nouns in Nêlêmwa
6. The morphology of number marking on NPs and VPs in Nêlêmwa and Zuanga
6.1 Semantics of reduplication
6.2 Number marking on NPs
6.3 Number marking on VPs
6.4 Number marking in some other Austronesian languages: Contrastive perspectives
7. The syntax of NP determiner phrases
7.1 Pre-NP and post-NP determiners in Nêlêmwa: Pragmatic aspects
7.2 Comparison of pre-NP and post-NP determiners in Nêlêmwa
7.3 Combination of pre-NP and post-NP determiners in Nêlêmwa
8. The syntax of numerals
8.1 Numerals as predicates or arguments
8.2 Numerals as determiners: Pre-NP or post-NP positions
9. Relation of the numeral 'one' to specificity: 'one' vs. 'an'
9.1 The numeral 'one' with indefinite NPs
9.2 The numeral 'one' with definite NPs
9.3 The numeral 'one' in factive and irrealis relative clauses
10. To conclude on the role of numeral and number specifiers
Appendix: List of classifiers in Nêlêmwa and Zuanga
References
Chapter 8. When number meets classification
1. Introduction
1.1 The Baïnounk languages
1.2 Introduction to noun class and number in Baïnounk languages
2. Two ways of expressing number
2.1 Number in the nominal classification system
2.2 The plural suffix
3. The semantics of the plural suffix
4. Classification, derivation, and number
5. Word class and number
6. Conclusion
References
Chapter 9. Number in Dinka
1. Introduction
2. Number inflection of simple native nouns
3. Number agreement
4. Singular-plural patterns
5. Internal reconstruction
6. Comparative evidence
7. The singular as basic synchronically
7.1 Number inflection of borrowed and derived nouns
7.2 Free variation in the plural
7.3 Singular used for reference to a plural set
7.4 Nouns modified by numerals
7.5 Typological change
8. Pluralia tantum
9. Morphologically collective nouns
10. Associative plural
11. Plurality in verbs
12. Conclusion
References
Chapter 10. Counting chickens in Luwo
1. Nouns and their structure
1.1 Number marking on nouns
1.2 Classifiers
2. Quantifiers and numerals
2.1 Quantifiers
2.2 Numerals
3. Nominal aspect
4. Accumulation of semantic properties and affix renewal
4.1 Don't count your chickens before they're hatched
References
Appendix
Chapter 11. Number in South-Bauchi West languages (Chadic, Nigeria)
1. Introduction
2. Overview of SBW languages
3. Number in the noun phrase
3.1 Northern SBW, plus Zo?i
3.2 Southern SBW
4. Number in the verb phrase
4.1 Subject-verb agreement in the left periphery of the verb
4.2 The Imperative plural
4.3 Plural verbs ("pluractionals")
4.4 Second person Plural verbal suffix
5. Number and other related categories
5.1 Honorifics, avoidance, etc.
5.2 Number and associative
5.3 Number and diminutive
6. Conclusion
References
Annex 1: SBW languages
Annex 2: Internal Classification of SBW languages
Chapter 12. Number and numerals in Zande
1. Introduction
2. Zande, an overview
3. Number marking on personal pronouns
3.1 Number mismatch in possessive constructions
3.2 The deferential plural pronoun
3.3 Associative plural with personal pronouns
4. Morphological number marking on nouns
4.1 Associative plural nouns
4.2 Quantifiers and numerals adjacent to the noun
5. The universal quantifier and numerals nonadjacent to the noun
5.1 Quantifying the subject
5.2 Quantifying the object
6. Quantifiers and numerals as predicates
7. Numerals as self-standing adverbials
8. Pluractional and intensive verb forms
9. Conclusions
References
Chapter 13. Numerals in Papuan languages of the Greater Awyu family
1. Introduction
2. Counting and numerals in the Dumut subgroup of the Awyu-Dumut branch
2.1 Digul Wambon
2.2 Wambon of the Winiktit area
2.3 Mandobo
3. Counting and numerals in the Awyu subgroup of the Awyu-Dumut branch
3.1 Aghu
3.2 Some data on the Sjiagha, Jenimu and Pisa numbers
4. Counting and numerals in the Ndeiram subgroup
5. Counting and numerals in the Becking-Dawi branch
5.1 Korowai
5.2 Tsaukambo and Komyandaret
6. Conclusions and discussion
References
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