Complex Numeral Expressions

A Plea for Grafts

Bibliographic Data

ID3171376
AuthorsAndré Meinunger (0000-0002-7379-437X, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Schützenstraße 18 D‐10117 Berlin Germany, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume18
Issue2
Pages103-123
Publication date2015-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSyntax (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1368-0005 • E-ISSN: 1467-9612
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/synt.12029
OpenAlexW2093698859
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited14

Grafting is a syntactic device developed and defended by van Riemsdijk (2000 and subsequent work) by which two independent input trees are connected via external remerger of internal elements, thus sharing a constituent. Grafting clearly violates standard assumptions about phrase structure. Still, several structures found in natural language are best analyzed in terms of grafting. The present paper discusses one such construction: complex numerals. It shows that the characteristic multidominance of grafting explains the word order, case assignment, plural, paucal, and singular distribution associated with complex numeral combinations better than a coordination approach and is more compatible with more number (or counting) systems found in the world's languages

Arithmetic · Geometry · Grafting · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Numeral system · Phrase · Physics · Plea · Plural · Rotation formalisms in three dimensions · Word (group theory · Computer Science · Language and cultural evolution · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence

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