<div><DIV style="font-family:arial; font-size:13px;">An interesting case-study in addtion to those already mentioned:<BR><BR>Yu, Alan C.L. 2003. 'Pluractionality in Chechen'. <I>Natural Language Semantics</I> 11. 289-321.<BR><BR><BR><BR><DIV>Sergey Lyosov <sergelyosov@inbox.ru> wrote:<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite="<1420763402.990035495@f404.i.mail.ru>"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Dear colleagues,</SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Bert Kouwenberg in his huge book on the Akkadian verb (2010) notes that “</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Verbal plurality or event plurality refers to a quantification of the event or the process expressed by the verb, i.e., whether it refers to a single, a repeated, a protracted, or a more intensive occurrence.”</SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In Akkadian, “verbal plurality” is rendered by two derived stems of the verb, one of which does not seem to have any meaning other than plurality.</SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Do you know of any recent reference works on verbal plurality, or of interesting case-studies outside Semitic (and Afrasian in general)?</SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Thank you very much,</SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">  Sergey </SPAN></P><BR>
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