11.1879, Qs: Phrasal Quantification, Deletion/Epenthesis

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Subject: 11.1879, Qs: Phrasal Quantification, Deletion/Epenthesis

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Date:  Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:04:44 +0100
From:  Torodd Kinn <torodd.kinn at lili.uib.no>
Subject:  Phrasal quantification

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Date:  Wed, 06 Sep 2000 12:24:38 -0400
From:  Claire Bowern <bowern at fas.harvard.edu>
Subject:  Linguist seeking Language ...

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:04:44 +0100
From:  Torodd Kinn <torodd.kinn at lili.uib.no>
Subject:  Phrasal quantification



Dear linguists,

I am looking for works on phrasal quantification.
English examples are "three bottles of wine" and "a lot of
people". I am particularly interested in those Germanic
languages where usually no preposition is used (the
Scandinavian ones, German, Dutch ...), but also English. In
German and Norwegian we find phrases like:

	drei Flaschen Wein / tre flasker vin
	eine Menge Menschen / ei mengd menneske

It is well known that both the first and the second noun
exhibit head properties, and an analysis based on
grammatical ambiguity has been proposed by Lars-Olof
Delsing in a principles-and-parameters framework.

I would be grateful for references to other analyses of
these constructions, especially DIACHRONIC, but also
synchronic ones. I'm working in cognitive linguistics
myself, but approaches of all persuasions are welcome.

If anyone expresses an interest, I'll post a summary of
references.

Thanks,

Torodd Kinn


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Date:  Wed, 06 Sep 2000 12:24:38 -0400
From:  Claire Bowern <bowern at fas.harvard.edu>
Subject:  Linguist seeking Language ...

		
		
I'm a linguist looking to meet a language that
		
1. has both prefixes and suffixes
2. does morphophonemic stuff to these affixes (eg doesn't allow vowels in
hiatus, or doesn't allow consonant clusters)
3. deletes affix material in both prefixes and suffixes (eg, Ci-aRoot >
CaRoot, Roota- iC > RootaC or the equivalent)
or
4. deletes root material at the expense of prefixes and suffixes (eg,
Ci-aRoot > CiRoot, Roota-iC > RootiC). This may involve deleting the entire
root.
		
So, my dream language is an exception to the often supposed rule that
deletion/epenthesis is uni-directional (as in eg Ito (1986)).  All
interested languages should reply to me at bowern at fas.harvard.edu.
		
Claire Bowern
		
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