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Another look at *numeral N-lAr : lecture at the Boğaziçi University, Department of Linguistics, Istanbul, Turkey, June 11th 2024Elena Guerzoni, 2024, invited lecture at foreign university
Abstract: In this talk I will present work in progress that I am conducting in collaboration with Furkan Dikmen and Penka Stateva. In this study, we develop a novel account for the ban of Turkish -lAr with numerals. This view builds on the pragmatic theories of the interpretation of the plural as an anti-singularity inference (see Sauerland 2003, Spector 2007, and Sauerland 2008) and presents the following advantages over Martí (2020)’s and Scontras (2022)’s previous accounts: it preserves the “at least” interpretation of Turkish numerals and at the same time it predicts the lack of plurality inferences in DE contexts, first reported in Sağ 2019.
Research funded by the ARIS project J6-3130- PI Prof. Artur Stefanov, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
References
Martí, L. 2020. Numerals and the theory of number. Semantics and Pragmatics 13.
Sağ, Y. 2019. The Semantics of Number Marking: Reference to Kinds, Counting, and Optional Classifiers. Rutgers University Doctoral Dissertation.
Sauerland, U. 2003. A new semantics for number. In Young, R. and Zhou, Y. (eds.) Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 13.
Sauerland, U. 2008. Implicated presuppositions. In Steube, A. (ed.), The Discourse Potential of Underspecified Structures, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 581-600.
Scontras, G. 2022 On the semantics of number morphology, Linguistics and Philosophy 45.5.
Spector, B. 2007. Aspects of the pragmatics of plural morphology: On higher-order implicatures. In Stateva, P. and Sauerland, U. (eds.) Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics.
Keywords: Turkish, Number Marking
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