[Lingtyp] verbal plurality

[Plank]

At the risk of stretching your notions of "recent" and "reference works", here are some further references:


Bach, Emmon, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer, & Barbara Partee (eds.). 1995. Quantification in natural languages. 2 vols. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Cusic, David. 1981. Verbal plurality and aspect. Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University.


Dressler, Wolfgang. 1969. Studien zur verbalen Pluralität: Iterativum, Distributivum, Durativum, Intensivum in der allgemeinen Grammatik, im Lateinischen und Hethitischen. (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Klasse, Sitzungsberichte, 259. Band, 1. Abhandlung.) Wien: Böhlau.


Jensen, Hans. 1952. Die sprachliche Kategorie des Numerus. Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Universität Rostock, Reihe Gesellschafts- und Sprachwissenschaft 1(2). 1-21.


Mithun, Marianne. 1988. Lexical categories and the evolution of number marking. In Michael Hammond & Michael Noonan (eds.), Theoretical morphology, 211-234. New York: Academic Press. (And other works of this author)


Newman, Paul. 1990. Nominal and verbal plurality in Chadic. Dordrecht: Foris.


Steever, Sanford B. 1987. The roots of the plural action verb in the Dravidian languages. Journal of the American Oriental Society 107. 581-604.


Xrakovskij, Viktor S. (ed.). 1989. Tipologija iterativnyx konstrukcij. Leningrad: Nauka. Translated and revised as: Typology of iterative constructions. München: Lincom Europa, 1997.



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On 09 Jan 2015, at 01:30, Sergey Lyosov <sergelyosov at INBOX.RU> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
> 
> Bert Kouwenberg in his huge book on the Akkadian verb (2010) notes that “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.”
> 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.
> Do you know of any recent reference works on verbal plurality, or of interesting case-studies outside Semitic (and Afrasian in general)?
>  
> Thank you very much,
>   Sergey 
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