Numberless kinds: Evidence from Russian

As is well-known from both descriptive and formally oriented literature, kind referring nominal phrases in Russian can appear in both morphologically singular and plural forms (Chierchia 1998; Doron 2003; Dayal 2004). The main contribution of this article is to argue that morphologically singular ki...

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Autores principales:	Olga Borik, M.Teresa Espinal
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Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2020
Materias:	kind reference number Russian Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6190b6c75fd74a0e9f0e6251bbb33add2021-11-27T10:46:17ZNumberless kinds: Evidence from Russian10.5565/rev/catjl.2991695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/6190b6c75fd74a0e9f0e6251bbb33add2020-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/299https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719As is well-known from both descriptive and formally oriented literature, kind referring nominal phrases in Russian can appear in both morphologically singular and plural forms (Chierchia 1998; Doron 2003; Dayal 2004). The main contribution of this article is to argue that morphologically singular kind expressions are, in fact, numberless nominal phrases. In other words, we will argue that the best way to analyse these expressions, which we refer to as definite kinds, following the terminology of Borik & Espinal (2012, 2015), is by representing them as lacking both syntactic and semantic Number. We base our analysis on the theoretical postulate that, semantically, Number can be viewed as a Realization Operator converting properties of kinds into properties of objects, and that definite kinds do not activate such an operator whatsoever. We show how the analysis we propose for definite kinds can be extended to explain the peculiarities of the word order found in modified kind expressions in Russian.Olga BorikM.Teresa EspinalUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticlekind referencenumberRussianPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 19 (2020)
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description	As is well-known from both descriptive and formally oriented literature, kind referring nominal phrases in Russian can appear in both morphologically singular and plural forms (Chierchia 1998; Doron 2003; Dayal 2004). The main contribution of this article is to argue that morphologically singular kind expressions are, in fact, numberless nominal phrases. In other words, we will argue that the best way to analyse these expressions, which we refer to as definite kinds, following the terminology of Borik & Espinal (2012, 2015), is by representing them as lacking both syntactic and semantic Number. We base our analysis on the theoretical postulate that, semantically, Number can be viewed as a Realization Operator converting properties of kinds into properties of objects, and that definite kinds do not activate such an operator whatsoever. We show how the analysis we propose for definite kinds can be extended to explain the peculiarities of the word order found in modified kind expressions in Russian.
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Numberless kinds: Evidence from Russian

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