{"title":"Introduction: New perspectives on lexical plurals","authors":"P. Lauwers, Marie Lammert","doi":"10.1075/LI.39.2.001INT","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LI.39.2.001INT","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43668,"journal":{"name":"Linguisticae Investigationes","volume":"39 1","pages":"207-216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/LI.39.2.001INT","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58892574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Les pluriels lexicaux dits « massifs » face au conditionneur universel","authors":"P. Lauwers","doi":"10.1075/LI.39.2.04LAU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LI.39.2.04LAU","url":null,"abstract":"Cette contribution s’interesse aux pluriels lexicaux en francais. Elle montre que les pluriels lexicaux sont toujours dans la portee de derivations ulterieures qui restaurent le statut [+ comptable], comme cela ressort notamment de la presence de determinants indefinis fortement individualisants. Ces transferts s’averent reproduire certains transferts classiques entre massif et comptable comme le trieur et le conditionneur universels. Ce dernier donne lieu a differents effets de sens d’apres la nature du nom qui sert d’input : delimitation dans l’espace tridimensionnel, delimitation temporelle, delimitation globale d’evenements et d’objets complexes et conditionnement qualitatif. Dans certains cas, le transfert aboutit a la refection du singulier au sein d’une nouvelle opposition grammaticale. Des operations « au-dela » du pluriel massif confirment a la fois la pertinence structurelle de la classe des pluriels massifs et leur statut proprement massif (massif etant concu ici a la fois comme ‘dense’ et ‘compact’). This paper deals with lexical plurals in French. It shows that lexical plurals are still within the scope of derivations that restore a [+ count] status, as witnessed by the presence of strongly individuating indefinite determiners. These shifts appear to line up with two canonical mass>count transfers, viz. the universal sorter and the universal packager. The latter comes in various subtypes according to the nature of the input-noun: packaging in three-dimensional space, temporal bounding, spatio-temporal bounding of complex activities and objects and, finally, “qualitative” packaging. In some cases, even a novel singular count form shows up ( Une rillette, s’il vous plait! ), restoring the canonical grammatical opposition. These operations beyond “plural mass” confirm both the structural relevance of mass plurals as a lexical class and their genuine ‘mass’ status (mass being conceived both as ‘dense’ and ‘compact’).","PeriodicalId":43668,"journal":{"name":"Linguisticae Investigationes","volume":"39 1","pages":"272-288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58893033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lexical plurals for aggregates of discrete entities in English: Why plural, yet non-count, nouns?","authors":"Laure Gardelle","doi":"10.1075/LI.39.2.08LGA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LI.39.2.08LGA","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies why, for a plurality of discrete entities, a non-count plural might be preferred over a count noun or a non-count singular. Building partly on Wierzbicka (1985 , 1988 ), it proposes two parameters: semantics, but also morphology. With lexical plurals, the items are construed as being of different kinds (vs. count nouns) and the focus is on the plurality of items rather than on a common purpose (vs. non-count singulars). For morphology, the notion of ‘attractor’ is proposed for some patterns which partly motivate the [±count] and number features. A collateral finding is that the plural of lexical plurals can be unstable: some nouns ending with -s undergo reanalysis as morphological plurals, while Latin plurals tend to be reanalysed as singulars. It is suggested that this trend confirms the semantic values of singular and plural numbers, as well as the influence of the morphological parameter on number and construal.","PeriodicalId":43668,"journal":{"name":"Linguisticae Investigationes","volume":"46 1","pages":"355-372"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/LI.39.2.08LGA","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58893136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new model for the conceptualization of color","authors":"C. Bernez","doi":"10.1075/LI.39.1.05BER","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LI.39.1.05BER","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will propose an innovative model of the conceptualization of color, demonstrated by the syntaxico-semantic description of the chromatic adjectives and their special behavior in gradation, especially in combination with the adverb tres [very]. Generally considered as a quality of an object, the color is not treated in language in the same way as other qualities are. Syntactic properties show that an ambivalent referent between texture and quality can be associated to the words of color. Comparing chromatic to typical adjectives of quality, many linguists have remarked that the combination [chromatic adjectives + tres ] is singular. The three most relevant studies (Milner, Whittaker, Noailly) hypothesize a change of category of the adjectives (from classifier to non-classifier) which is denied by Kleiber, who claims that the problem is not linguistic but referential: colors are not gradable referents. None of these explanations are satisfying. Drawing upon a description of the syntactic properties of this combination – reflecting the type of referent possessing the color (homogenous or not) and kind of color (natural or not) – our hypothesis proves that colors are gradable but not always in the same way as qualities, because color can also lead to a quantitative interpretation. This singularity depends on the bidimensionality of the referent, causing two possible interpretations.","PeriodicalId":43668,"journal":{"name":"Linguisticae Investigationes","volume":"39 1","pages":"116-142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/LI.39.1.05BER","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58892424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Harris, Chomsky and the origins of transformational grammar","authors":"G. Graffi","doi":"10.1075/LI.39.1.03GRA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LI.39.1.03GRA","url":null,"abstract":"According to Chomsky’s report of the mid 1970s, he and Harris developed their theories in an essentially independent way; whereas according to some statements by Harris, some contact actually took place between them. To shed light on this issue, it may be useful to systematically compare their respective views of the notion ‘transformation’ as well as their analyses of certain syntactic phenomena. Among the topics dealt with in the present article are: the system of syntactic categories and their symbols; the notion of ‘zero elements’; the phenomenon of discontinuous constituents; the English auxiliary system; wh -constructions; the typology of transformations; the notions of ‘kernel’ and ‘kernel sentence’. Several of these analyses show many points of contact between the two scholars (e.g., the analysis of wh -constructions or that of English auxiliaries), which allow us to maintain that they surely influenced each other. The overall differences between the two models are also clear: the transformational relation holds between sentences in Harris’s framework, while it holds between underlying strings on the one hand and actual sentences on the other in Chomsky’s. As a consequence of this different view of the notion of transformation, two problems which were fundamental for Chomsky had no importance for Harris, namely the order of transformations and the distinction between optional and obligatory transformations. It can therefore be concluded that, if the two scholars certainly influenced each other when they were working out their respective transformational theories, their theoretical views were acutely different almost from the beginning.","PeriodicalId":43668,"journal":{"name":"Linguisticae Investigationes","volume":"39 1","pages":"48-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/LI.39.1.03GRA","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58892621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structures for plurals","authors":"Paolo Acquaviva","doi":"10.1075/LI.39.2.01ACQ","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LI.39.2.01ACQ","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a hypothesis about the innermost structure of noun phrases, which aims at explaining the interaction of number and countability in nouns. This is based on a constructionist approach which views nouns as substructures of the noun phrase, and word formation and inflection as the morphological spellout of structures assembled and interpreted at an abstract syntactic level. It argues that nouns fundamentally identify entity types, and the rest of the DP specifies their denotation in part-structural and quantificational terms. This provides the framework for a new unified analysis of nouns like furniture, waters, and contents, where number and countability interact in a non-canonical way, which accounts for their morphology and their semantics.","PeriodicalId":43668,"journal":{"name":"Linguisticae Investigationes","volume":"39 1","pages":"217-233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/LI.39.2.01ACQ","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58892722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lexical plurals through meronymy and hyperonymy","authors":"Marie Lammert","doi":"10.1075/LI.39.2.07LAM","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LI.39.2.07LAM","url":null,"abstract":"This study uses meronymy and hyperonymy as semantic criteria applied to French collective nouns (CollNs) and lexical plural nouns (LPNs) in the issue of noun classification. After having outlined the semantic properties of CollNs and explained their links with meronymy and hyperonymy, LPNs are tested in different glosses related to these two relationships. These tests outline that CollNs and LPNs form two kinds of nouns that could hardly converge. They also enlighten the way the different subclasses of LPNs match with meronymy and hyperonymy.","PeriodicalId":43668,"journal":{"name":"Linguisticae Investigationes","volume":"39 1","pages":"335-354"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58892921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Articulatory plurality is a property of lexical plurals in sign language","authors":"Carl Börstell, R. Lepic, Gal Belsitzman","doi":"10.1075/LI.39.2.10BOR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LI.39.2.10BOR","url":null,"abstract":"Sign languages make use of paired articulators (the two hands), hence manual signs may be either one- or two-handed. Although two-handedness has previously been regarded a purely formal feature, st ...","PeriodicalId":43668,"journal":{"name":"Linguisticae Investigationes","volume":"39 1","pages":"391-407"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58893547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Les pluriels internes féminins de l’arabe tunisien","authors":"Myriam Dali, É. Mathieu","doi":"10.1075/LI.39.2.03DAL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LI.39.2.03DAL","url":null,"abstract":"L’objectif de cet article est de rendre compte des pluriels simples et doubles de l’arabe dans le cadre de la theorie des nominaux et de l’individuation de Borer (2005) . En particulier, nous etudions ces pluriels dans les constructions ou l’accord entre le verbe et le pluriel est deviant et faisons quatre propositions 1) les pluriels internes sont feminins (et singuliers) a un niveau sous-jacent dans les contextes ou l’accord est deviant, ne representant donc pas, contrairement aux apparences, d’echec d’appariement ; 2) lorsque les pluriels internes s’accordent avec le verbe, une interpretation distributive ou collective est etablie, et lorsque les pluriels internes ne s’accordent pas avec le verbe, seule l’interpretation collective peut etre generee, resultat de la fonction atomisante du feminin que l’on retrouve independamment dans le contexte du singulatif ; 3) le pluriel interne feminin constitue la base des doubles pluriels, si bien que ces derniers font surface a un niveau superieur dans la structure nominale, offrant donc un deuxieme type de pluriel, pourvu d’une fonction comptable, alors que celui genere sous la tete Div a une fonction atomisante ; 4) les regles que nous decrivons sont tout a fait previsibles et productives, ce qui laisse supposer que les pluriels etudies dans notre article ne sont pas des pluriels lexicaux. The aim of this paper is to account for single and double plurals of Arabic under Borer’s nominal theory of division (2005) . In particular, we study these plurals in constructions where the agreement between the verb and the plural is deflected and make four proposals : 1) broken plurals are feminine (and singular) at an underlying level in contexts where the agreement is deflected, thus not representing failure of agreement, contrary to appearances; 2) when the broken plurals agree with the verb, distributive or collective interpretations arise, and when the broken plurals do not agree with the verb, only the collective interpretation can be generated as a result of the atomizing function of the feminine gender that is independently found in the context of the singulative ; 3) the feminine broken plural constitutes the basis of the double plurals, so that the later surface at a higher level in the nominal structure, thus providing a second type of plural, with a counting function, while the plural generated under Div has an atomizing function; 4) the rules that we describe are quite predictable and productive, suggesting that the plurals studied in our paper are not lexical plurals.","PeriodicalId":43668,"journal":{"name":"Linguisticae Investigationes","volume":"39 1","pages":"253-271"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/LI.39.2.03DAL","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58892404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Le rôle du figement dans le traitement de la synonymie au sein du champ de la colère","authors":"Julie Sorba, Vannina Goossens","doi":"10.1075/LI.39.1.01SOR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LI.39.1.01SOR","url":null,"abstract":"Cette etude vise a mettre en evidence, dans une perspective fonctionnelle, les caracteristiques specifiques de quatre lexies d’affect, presentees comme synonymes, au sein des collocations ou elles apparaissent ( rage, fureur, rageur, furieux ). Les analyses de la combinatoire de ces lexies, menees sur un vaste corpus, permettent d’operer a trois niveaux (semantique, syntaxique et textuel) afin d’elargir la description de maniere systematique a la dimension discursive. Nous montrons ainsi que le profil discursif de chacune des lexies fournit des elements pertinents pour distinguer les synonymes entre eux. In this paper, we aim to reveal the distinctive features of the French synonymous lexies rage, fureur, rageur and furieux in the collocations in which each of them appears. Our study is corpus-based. We describe, in the functional perspective, how each of them preferred to be combined with some specific elements in the nearby context and, more generally, in a particular textual environment. Thus, we show that the what we have called ‘discursive profile’ of each lexie give relevant information to distinguish between these couples of synonyms.","PeriodicalId":43668,"journal":{"name":"Linguisticae Investigationes","volume":"39 1","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/LI.39.1.01SOR","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58892527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}