Verbal Plurality and Distributivity LA 546 (Linguistische Arbeiten, 546) (English, Arabic, Quechua, Portuguese, Hausa, Hebrew and Russian Edition)

This volume brings together novel analyses of verbal plurality and distributivity. The contributions draw on a wide range of new empirical data from languages as diverse as Arabic, Cusco Quechua, European Portuguese, Hausa, Karitiana, Modern Hebrew and Russian. The introductory chapter gives an overview of the central issues that underlie much recent research on the semantics of event plurality. The papers on verbal plurality explore the interaction between verbal plurality and plural arguments in Arabic and European Portuguese, the semantics of additive particles in Modern Hebrew, the semantics of a range of pluractional markers in Cusco Quechua and the morphological variability of pluractional markers cross-linguistically. The papers on distributivity examine the syntax and semantics of reduplicated numerals in Karitiana and adnominal distributive markers. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language typology.

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This volume brings together novel analyses of verbal plurality and distributivity. The authors draw on a wide range of new empirical data from languages as diverse as Arabic, Cusco Quechua, European Portuguese, Hausa, Karitiana, Modern Hebrew and Russian. The papers address four issues in particular: the interaction between nominal and verbal plurality, the expression of distributivity by reduplicated numerals and adnominal distributive markers, the variation in the semantics of pluractional markers and the morphological variability of pluractional markers cross-linguistically. Authors’ biographies Introduction Nominal and verbal plurality in the diachrony of the Portuguese Present Perfect Pluractionality and accompaniment in Cuzco Quechua How plural can verbs be? Event-based additivity in English and Modern Hebrew On distributivity in Karitiana Pluractional verbs: An overview Distributivity is not uniformly over events Index The book series Linguistische Arbeiten (LA) publishes high-quality work in linguistics that addresses current issues in synchrony and diachrony, theoretically or empirically oriented.