[Lingtyp] verbal plurality

thomas blecke thomas_blecke at sil.org
Fri Jan 9 11:23:09 UTC 2015


the phenomenon has also been described in a Gur language of West Africa:
Elders, Stefan 2008: Grammaire Kulango (parler de Bouna, CI). R. Köppe 
Verlag, p. 196sq

Best,
Thomas Blecke

On 09-Jan-15 09:18, Plank wrote:
> At the risk of stretching your notions of "recent" and "reference 
> works", here are some further references:
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> Bach, Emmon, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer, & Barbara Partee 
> (eds.). 1995. /Quantification in natural languages./ 2 vols. 
> Dordrecht: Kluwer.
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> Cusic, David. 1981. Verbal plurality and aspect. Ph.D. dissertation, 
> Stanford University.
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> 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.
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> Jensen, Hans. 1952. Die sprachliche Kategorie des Numerus. 
> /Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Universität Rostock, Reihe 
> Gesellschafts- und Sprachwissenschaft/ 1(2). 1-21.
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> 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)
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> Newman, Paul. 1990. /Nominal and verbal plurality in Chadic/. 
> Dordrecht: Foris.
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> Steever, Sanford B. 1987. The roots of the plural action verb in the 
> Dravidian languages. /Journal of the American Oriental Society/ 107. 
> 581-604.
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> 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 
> <mailto:sergelyosov at INBOX.RU>> wrote:
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>> 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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