Arbes Number Categories

Dynamics, Contact, Typology
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-11-098662-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 32, 190 Seiten

Reihe: Studia Typologica [STTYP]ISSN

The book examines the category Number from a variety of linguistic perspectives. Typological aspects of co-plurals and singulatives are introduced and number marking is analysed for three individual languages: Kamas (Samoyedic), Welsh (Celtic) and Wagi (Beria, Saharan). For each language, the focus lies on a different aspect of number marking: In the Wagi dialect of Beria, different tonal patterns are discovered. The extinct Kamas language is analysed in terms of language contact with Russian. Number categories can also serve as a measure of loanword integration, as the study about spoken Welsh shows. The combination of articles in this volume illustrates the potential of number marking and offers insights that contribute our understanding of how grammatical number is applied and categorised in languages.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and Researchers interested in Linguistics, Language Cont

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arbes, Deborah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines

Über Autor(innen)

Deborah Arbes, Universität Bremen.

Deborah Arbes, University of Bremen, Germany.