Names, Light Nouns, and Countability

IF 1.6 1区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Linguistic Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-12-22 DOI:10.1162/ling_a_00437

Friederike Moltmann

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Abstract

Making use of Kayne’s (2005, 2010) theory of light nouns, this article argues that light nouns are part of (simple) names and that a mass/count distinction among light nouns explains the behavior of certain types of names in German as mass rather than count. The article elaborates the role of light nouns with new generalizations regarding their linguistic behavior in quantificational and pronominal NPs, their selection of relative pronouns in German, and a general difference in the support of plural anaphora between English and German.

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名称、轻名词和可计数性

本文利用Kayne（20052010）的轻名词理论，认为轻名词是（简单）名称的一部分，轻名词之间的质/数区分将德语中某些类型名称的行为解释为质而非数。本文阐述了轻名词在数量名词和代词名词中的作用，以及轻名词在德语中相对代词的选择，以及英语和德语在支持复数回指方面的普遍差异。

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