Query to linguists

[Loren A. Billings]

Andrew Jameson wrote:
>
> Dear Seelangs linguists,
>
> I am writing a lecture on translation and meaning with regard
> to Russian, and have got stuck on the question: Is "number"
> part of "language"? Or is it something else, and if so, what..
> Bit abstruse, but maybe someone can reply off list with a
> reference, Thanks.


Andrew (and everyone else), just one reference stands out:

CORBETT, Greville G. (2000) _Number_ (Cambridge textbooks in
     linguistics). Cambridge University Press.

The opening pages show how this question is not as simple as it
may at first seem. The book has an index with numerous listings
under Russian (thanks to Grev's experience in Slavic).

Cheers, --Loren


Loren A. Billings, Ph.D.
Associate professor of linguistics
Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
National Chi Nan University
Puli, Nantou, Taiwan 545 Republic of China

E-mail: billings at ncnu.edu.tw

Telephone: +886-49-291-0960
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