Although number words are common in everyday speech, learning their meanings is an arduous, drawn-out process for most children, and the source of this delay has long been the subject of inquiry. Children begin by identifying the few small numerosities that can be named without counting, and this has prompted further debate over whether there is a specific, capacity-limited system for represent...

In Section 2, we review (briefly and superficially) some of the basics of NP interpretations, the semantics of the relevant operator-like elements, and their interaction. Then we look at how some natural languages encode certain relations between NPs and certain operators, giving us a window on some aspects of the “logic of natural language”. There we find a puzzle in the Russian “genitive of n...

While most Mayan languages show an ergative-absolutive pattern of agreement in all main clauses, Chol shows what has been described as an aspect-based split (Quizar and Knowles-Berry 1988; Vázquez Álvarez 2002; Law et al. 2006): perfective clauses show an ergative-absolutive pattern, as in (1), while non-perfective clauses show what appears to be a nominative-accusative pattern, illustrated in ...

This paper deals with the distribution of use accusative as an indirect object in two major dialect groups Modern Greek, namely Northern Greek and Pontic Greek. The loss dative Medieval (c. 10th c. AD) resulted genitive southern varieties Asia Minor As Standard employs genitive, little attention has been paid to accusative, our study was aimed fill that gap by presenting data collected Greece f...

A configurational account of Finnish case Summary: This paper presents a configurational account of Finnishmorphological case wherein CP and vP phases serve as the local domains for case competition. I argue that, in the phasebased configurational case model, a DP with unmarked case located at the edge of phase α partakes in case competition at the next highest phase β such that it can receivem...