Incorporation, plurality, and the incorporation of plurals: a dynamic approach

• Autores: Farkas Donka F, Swart Henriette de
• Localización: Catalan journal of linguistics, ISSN-e 2014-9719, ISSN 1695-6885, Vol. 3, 2004 (Ejemplar dedicado a: The Semantics of Nominals / coord. por María Teresa Espinal Farre , Louise McNally ), págs. 45-73
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5565/rev/catjl.105
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  • This paper deals with the semantic properties of incorporated nominals that are present at clausal syntax. Such nominals exhibit a complex cluster of semantic properties, ranging from argument structure, scope, and number to discourse transparency. We develop an analysis of incorporation in the framework of Discourse Representation Theory, a dynamic theory that can connect sentence- level and discourse-level semantics. We concentrate on data from Hungarian, where incorporated nominals may be either morphologically singular or plural. We set out to capture two sets of contrasts: (i) those we find when comparing incorporated nominals on the one hand and their non-incorporated, full-fledged argument sisters on the other, and (ii) those we find when comparing morphologically singular and morphologically plural incorporated nominals. A more elaborate version of the analysis can be found in Farkas and de Swart (2003).

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