Listen "Conlangery #125: Grammatical Number"
Episode Synopsis
This month we talk about grammatical number. What number distinctions can you make for a language (beyond singular and plural)? What do you mark for number? And how does number interact with agreement and other grammatical systems? We’ll help you with all of that.
Top of Show Greeting: Classical Latin (translated and read by Nicholas Duharte)
Links and Resources
Baerman, Matthew and Dunstan Brown (2013) Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking.
In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures Online.
Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Corbett, Greville (2000) Number. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Daniel, Michael (2013) Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns.
In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.)
Daniel, Michael and Edith Moravcsik (2013) The Associative Plural.
In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.)
Dixon, Robert (2012) Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 3: Further Grammatical Topics. Oxford University Press
Yazzie, Helen Yellowman et al. (2000) Da: The Navajo distributive plural preverb. Diné Bizaad Naalkaah: Navajo Language Investigations, Working papers on endangered and less familiar languages, 3, 141-160
Top of Show Greeting: Classical Latin (translated and read by Nicholas Duharte)
Links and Resources
Baerman, Matthew and Dunstan Brown (2013) Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking.
In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures Online.
Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Corbett, Greville (2000) Number. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Daniel, Michael (2013) Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns.
In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.)
Daniel, Michael and Edith Moravcsik (2013) The Associative Plural.
In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.)
Dixon, Robert (2012) Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 3: Further Grammatical Topics. Oxford University Press
Yazzie, Helen Yellowman et al. (2000) Da: The Navajo distributive plural preverb. Diné Bizaad Naalkaah: Navajo Language Investigations, Working papers on endangered and less familiar languages, 3, 141-160
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