54. The Plural in Biafada.

the plural morpheme in the persian language

in this research, it has been tried to survey certain persian sentences and based on the linguists' ideas the existence of the number phrase in definition phrase in the persian language is demonstrated. then it has been attempted to show that the position of the plural morpheme in persian, quite similar to the other languages, is the core of the number phrase. along with surveying the feat...

The DP-adjoined plural in Yucatec Maya and the syntax of plural marking

This paper provides an analysis of the syntax of optional plural marking in Yucatec Maya. I argue that plural morphology does not head a functional number projection as has been proposed for a variety of well-known languages, rather it merges as an adjoined modifier to the Determiner Phrase. This analysis explains a number of otherwise curious facts about plural marking in Yucatec Maya: the non...

Plural Predication

My thesis consists of three self-contained but interconnected papers. In the first one, 'Word and Objects', I assume that it is possible to quantify over absolutely everything, and show that certain English sentences containing collective predicates resist paraphrase in first-order languages and even in first-order languages enriched with plural quantifiers. To capture such sentences I develop ...

The Plural Is Semantically Unmarked

the u.s. policy in central asia and its impact on the colored revolutions in the region (the case study of tulip revolution in kyrgyzstan)

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