Verbal Plurality and Distributivity / / ed. by Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Brenda Laca.

This volume brings together novel analyses of verbal plurality and distributivity. The contributions draw on a wide range of new empirical data from languages as diverse as Arabic, Cusco Quechua, European Portuguese, Hausa, Karitiana, Modern Hebrew and Russian. The introductory chapter gives an over...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Linguistische Arbeiten , 546
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Physical Description:1 online resource (225 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Authors’ biographies
  • Introduction – event plurality, verbal plurality and distributivity
  • Nominal and verbal plurality in the diachrony of the Portuguese Present Perfect
  • Pluractionality and accompaniment in Cuzco Quechua
  • How plural can verbs be?
  • Event-Based Additivity in English and Modern Hebrew
  • On Distributivity in Karitiana
  • Pluractional Verbs: An Overview
  • Distributivity is not uniformly over events
  • Index