Author : Mojmír Dočekal
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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Formal approaches to number in Slavic and beyond by : Mojmír Dočekal
Download or read book Formal approaches to number in Slavic and beyond written by Mojmír Dočekal. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this collective monograph is to explore the relationship between the cognitive notion of number and various grammatical devices expressing this concept in natural language with a special focus on Slavic. The book aims at investigating different morphosyntactic and semantic categories including plurality and number-marking, individuation and countability, cumulativity, distributivity and collectivity, numerals, numeral modifiers and classifiers, as well as other quantifiers. It gathers 19 contributions tackling the main themes from different theoretical and methodological perspectives in order to contribute to our understanding of cross-linguistic patterns both in Slavic and non-Slavic languages.