Procure Cardinals: The Syntax And Semantics Of Cardinal-Containing Expressions Expressed By Tania Ionin Distributed As Softcover

argument that complex cardinals are not extralinguistic but built using standard syntax and standard principles of semantic composition, In Cardinals, Tania Ionin and Ora Matushansky offer a semantic and syntactic analysis of nominal expressions containing complex cardinals for example, two hundred and thirtyfive books.
They show that complex cardinals are not an extralinguistic phenomenon as is often assumed but built using standard syntax and standard principles of semantic composition, Complex cardinals can tell us as much about syntactic structure and semantic composition as other linguistic expressions,

Ionin and Matushansky show that their analysis accounts for the internal composition of cardinalcontaining constructions crosslinguistically, providing examples from more than fifteen languages, They demonstrate that their proposal is compatible with a variety of related phenomena, including modified numerals, measure nouns, and fractions, Ionin and Matushansky show that a semantic or syntactic account that captures the behavior of a simplex cardinal such as five does not automatically transfer to a complex cardinal such as five thousand and fortysix and propose a compositional analysis of complex cardinals.
They consider the lexical categories of simplex cardinals and their role in the construction of complex cardinals examine in detail the numeral systems of selected languages, including Slavic and Semitic languages discuss linguistic constructions

that contain cardinals address extralinguistic conventions on the construction of complex cardinals and, drawing on data from Modern Hebrew, Basque, Russian, and Dutch, show that modified numerals and partitives are compatible with their analysis.
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