Browsing College of Arts and Celtic Studies by Subject "Semantics"

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Goidelic inherent plurals and the morphosemantics of number

Acquaviva, Paolo (Elsevier, 2006-11)

After numbers above 2, nouns are singular or plural depending on the language. But in Irish and Scottish some nouns must be singular and others plural, in a variety of dialectal patterns. Once the semantic basis underlying ...
Roots, categories, and nominal concepts

Acquaviva, Paolo (Il Mulino, 2009-01)

This paper investigates what is specifically nominal in lexical semantics and how it relates to nouns as morphosyntactic objects. Nouns are argued to refer primarily to kind-level sorts, which define categories of entities ...