Decomposing coordination
- 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.
Author: | Moreno Mitrović, Uli Sauerland |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-385823 |
ISBN: | 9781501048463 |
Parent Title (English): | NELS 44 : proceedings of the forty-fourth annual meeting of the north east linguistics society ; Bd. 1 |
Publisher: | GLSA, Univ. of Mass. |
Place of publication: | Amherst, Mass. |
Editor: | Jyoti Iyer, Leland Kusmer |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2014 |
Year of first Publication: | 2014 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2015/12/08 |
GND Keyword: | Koordination <Linguistik>; Semantik; Kontrastive Linguistik |
Volume: | 44 |
Page Number: | 14 |
First Page: | 39 |
Last Page: | 52 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 385127693 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Kontrastive Linguistik / Contrastive linguistics | |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |