The Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number (Oxford Handbooks)

This volume offers detailed accounts of current research in grammatical number in language. Following a detailed introduction, the chapters in the first three parts of the book explore the multiple research questions in the field and the complex problems surrounding the analysis of grammatical number: Part I presents the background and foundational notions, Part II the morphological, semantic, and syntactic aspects, and Part III the different means of expressing plurality in the event domain. The final part offers fifteen case studies that include in-depth discussion of grammatical number phenomena in a range of typologically diverse languages, written by - or in collaboration with - native speakers linguists or based on extensive fieldwork. The volume draws on work from a range of subdisciplines - including morphology, syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics - and will be a valuable resource for students and scholars in all areas of theoretical, descriptive, and experimental linguistics. "Este volumen ofrece informes detallados de la investigación actual sobre el número gramatical en el lenguaje. Tras una detallada introducción, los capítulos de las tres primeras partes del libro exploran las múltiples cuestiones de investigación en este campo y los complejos problemas que rodean el análisis del número gramatical. La parte I presenta los antecedentes y las nociones fundamentales, la parte II los aspectos morfológicos, semánticos y sintácticos, y la parte III los diferentes medios de expresión de la pluralidad en el dominio del evento. La última parte ofrece quince estudios de caso que incluyen una discusión en profundidad de los fenómenos numéricos gramaticales en una serie de lenguas tipológicamente diversas, escritos por lingüistas nativos -o en colaboración con ellos- o basados en un amplio trabajo de campo. El volumen se basa en el trabajo de una serie de subdisciplinas -incluyendo la morfología, la sintaxis, la semántica y la psicolingüística- y será un recurso valioso para los estudiantes y los académicos en todas las áreas de la lingüística teórica, descriptiva y experimental" This volume offers detailed accounts of current research in grammatical number in language. Following a detailed introduction, the chapters in the first three parts of the book explore the multiple research questions in the field and the complex problems surrounding the analysis of grammatical number: Part I presents the background and foundational notions, Part II the morphological, semantic, and syntactic aspects, and Part III the different means of expressing plurality in the event domain. 0The final part offers fifteen case studies that include in-depth discussion of grammatical number phenomena in a range of typologically diverse languages, written by - or in collaboration with - native speakers linguists or based on extensive fieldwork. The volume draws on work from a range of subdisciplines - including morphology, syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics - and will be a valuable resource for students and scholars in all areas of theoretical, descriptive, and experimental linguistics This book offers detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of grammatical number in language. It draws on work from a range of subdisciplines - including morphology, syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics - and will be a valuable resource for students and scholars in all areas of theoretical, descriptive, and experimental linguistics.