TY  - CHAP
A1  - Mitrović, Moreno
A1  - Sauerland, Uli
A2  - Iyer, Jyoti
A2  - Kusmer, Leland
T1  - Decomposing coordination
T2  - NELS 44 : proceedings of the forty-fourth annual meeting of the north east linguistics society ; Bd. 1
N2  - Natural languages display a surprising diversity of expression of elementary logical operations. The study of this variation is emerging as an important topic of cross-linguistic semantics. In this paper, we address the expression of coordination from this perspective, especially coordination of individual denoting expressions such as "John and Mary". We argue that there is an underlying universal structure for individual coordination, and that the cross-linguistic variation can be explained by assuming that languages pronounce different morphemes of this universal structure. In particular, we argue that there two main types of system for the expression of individual coordination: the J-type and the μ-type. In μ-type languages the morpheme used for individual coordination also has uses a quantificational or focus particle, while in the J-type languages it doesn't. Instead at least in many J-type languages the same morpheme is used for individual and propositional coordination. The evidence we present for our model comes from two sources: new data from specific data of the J-type and μ-type languages, and from a study of the historical development of the expression of individual coordination in Indo-European which switched from a μ-type to a J-type system.
KW  - Koordination <Linguistik>
KW  - Semantik
KW  - Kontrastive Linguistik
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38582
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-385823
SN  - 9781501048463
VL  - 44
SP  - 39
EP  - 52
PB  - GLSA, Univ. of Mass.
CY  - Amherst, Mass.
ER  -