Number-based noun classification: The view from Kipsigis

M Kouneli - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2021 - Springer
Nilo-Saharan languages are well-known for their complicated system of nominal number
marking, which features a variety of singulative and plural affixes (Dimmendaal 2000). Even …

Interactions of gender and number agreement: Evidence from Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian

Z Puškar - Syntax, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Split hybrid nouns in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian display two sets of interesting properties:
they can bear both natural and grammatical gender, and which gender participates in …

Person-based prominence in Ojibwe

C Hammerly - 2020 - scholarworks.umass.edu
This dissertation develops a formal and psycholinguistic theory of person-based prominence
effects, the finding that certain categories of person such as" first" and" second"(the" local" …

[PDF][PDF] The interaction/satisfaction distinction is redundant: A reply to Deal (2024) and Oxford (2022)

C Hammerly - Linguistic Inquiry with minor revisions, 2024 - christopherhammerly.com
Two recent papers on variation in agreement, one by Deal (2024) for the person-case
constraint (PCC) and one by Oxford (2022) for Algonquian direct/inverse Voice, have argued …

A theory of distributed number

M Dali, E Mathieu - 2021 - torrossa.com
The main objective of this book is to develop a deeper understanding of the form and
interpretation of number, a core feature of human cognition (Dehaene, 1999). Using insights …

[PDF][PDF] Phonological realization of morphosyntactic features

G Markopoulos - 2018 - researchgate.net
Giorgos Markopoulos Phonological Realization of Morphosyntactic Features Doctoral
dissertation Page 1 DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS SCHOOL OF PHILOLOGY …

[PDF][PDF] Gender and number in Tunisian Arabic: A case of contextual allosemy

M Dali - 2020 - ruor.uottawa.ca
In this thesis, I investigate the distribution and function (s) of gender in Tunisian Arabic.
Based on the observation that gender can ll multiple functions and hence receive different …

Gender as a property of words and as a property of structures

P Acquaviva - Catalan journal of linguistics, 2020 - revistes.uab.cat
A reflection on the essence of gender as a grammatical concept leads to examining some
phenomena which suggest that gender is fundamentally a property of nominal syntactic …

Broken plurals and (mis) matching of ɸ-features in Tunisian Arabic

M Dali, E Mathieu - Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 2020 - brill.com
The aim of this paper is to explain an unusual agreement pattern that arises between
Tunisian Arabic broken plurals and their targets. For example, a verb may agree with a …

A set-based semantics for person, obviation, and animacy

C Hammerly - Language, 2023 - muse.jhu.edu
This article provides a general analysis of the semantics of person, broadly construed,
through a case study of Ojibwe (Central Algonquian). Ojibwe shows person-like distinctions …