Nominal Number Marking in Wolane

Nominal head-marking constructions: two case studies from Luiseño

Number and Individuation: Nominal Semantics in Dagaare

Languages dispose of a variety of means for classifying and counting different types of objects present in the world. An instance is the much discussed mass-count distinction. In English, count nouns (dog, chair) allow plural marking and modification by cardinal quantifiers (two) and by determiners implicating plurality (several); mass terms (water, sand) do not permit plural marking, nor the q...

No Clash Constraint in Nominal RNR Number Agreement

This paper presents a survey of agreement patterns in the right node raising construction in the nominal domain, makes a novel cross-linguistic generalization, and offers a multi-dominance account for singular targets in this and that student and a conjunction account for plural targets in John’s and Mary’s students. The account proposed here make various implications on agreement/ concord, NP ...

Integrating Category Acquisition with In ectional Marking: A Model of the German Nominal System

Linguistic categories play a key role in virtually every theory that has a bearing on human language. This paper presents a connectionist model of grammatical category formation and use, within the domain of the German nominal system. The model demonstrates (1) how categorical information can be created through co-occurrence learning; (2) how grammatical categorization and in ectional marking c...

Acquisition of English Number Marking: The Singular–Plural Distinction

We present data from a preferential looking method to investigate when infants have mapped singular and plural markers in English onto the semantic distinction between singleton sets and sets with more than 1 individual. Twentyto 36-month-old children heard sentences that marked number in 1 of 2 ways: (a) redundantly with verb morphology, lexical quantifiers, and noun morphology (“Look, there A...