Nairan Wu

Dados Biográficos

ID9708625
NOMENairan Wu
PRENOMESNairan
SOBRENOMEWu
ASSINATURAWU N
AFILIAÇÕESBoston University , Boston , USA
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS2
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR2
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2023
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2023
ÍNDICE H0

  • The semantics of N-by-N adverbials

    Open AccessNairan WuARTICLEProceedings of the Linguistic…2023

    This paper will argue for a new analysis of N-by-N adverbials that they require a plural event and quantize the rate (when the N is a unit noun) or the participants (when N is a number or a sortal noun) of each subevent based on contextually interpreted free variables. It differs from previous analyses in that it does not link N-by-N adverbials to scalar change (Henderson 2013) or to the mereological make-up of some participants (Beck and Stechow…

  • The Pahoturi River language family, with special reference to its verbal puzzles

    Open AccessKate L Lindsey, Dineke Schokkin et al.ARTICLELinguistic Typology2023

    This profile of the Pahoturi River language family of southern Papua New Guinea draws from extensive fieldwork on Idi [ISO 639-3: idi] and Ende [kit] – two of six varieties comprising this family – and brief surveying of the other four, which we illustrate in print for the first time. We present the first typological treatment of Pahoturi River in pursuit of shining more light on this understudied corner of the linguistic landscape. This profile …