Counting and the grammar: Case and numerals in Inari Sami
This paper examines new data from Inari Sami which pose a challenge for two basic principles within generative grammar, namely that the lexicon consists of an unordered set, and that rules of the grammar cannot “count”. Drawing on evidence from the system of case and numerals in Inari Sami, we first...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.488.8597 2023-05-15T18:10:24+02:00 Counting and the grammar: Case and numerals in Inari Sami Diane Nelson Ida Toivonen The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2003 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.488.8597 http://www.leeds.ac.uk/linguistics/WPL/WP2000/Nels%26Toiv2.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.488.8597 http://www.leeds.ac.uk/linguistics/WPL/WP2000/Nels%26Toiv2.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/linguistics/WPL/WP2000/Nels%26Toiv2.pdf text 2003 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T08:21:02Z This paper examines new data from Inari Sami which pose a challenge for two basic principles within generative grammar, namely that the lexicon consists of an unordered set, and that rules of the grammar cannot “count”. Drawing on evidence from the system of case and numerals in Inari Sami, we first discuss the data in light of Case Theory, in order to identify the structural relations and mechanisms involved in Inari Sami. We then examine several theories of numerals from a cross-linguistic perspective, and conclude that none of the existing theories can account for the Inari Sami data while still maintaining the assumptions mentioned above. We claim that the best explanation for the data lies in a structured, ordered lexicon, in which certain lexical items are acquired and stored in a particular numerical order, to which morphosyntactic rules and processes may be sensitive. 1 Text sami Unknown Inari ENVELOPE(27.029,27.029,68.906,68.906) |
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This paper examines new data from Inari Sami which pose a challenge for two basic principles within generative grammar, namely that the lexicon consists of an unordered set, and that rules of the grammar cannot “count”. Drawing on evidence from the system of case and numerals in Inari Sami, we first discuss the data in light of Case Theory, in order to identify the structural relations and mechanisms involved in Inari Sami. We then examine several theories of numerals from a cross-linguistic perspective, and conclude that none of the existing theories can account for the Inari Sami data while still maintaining the assumptions mentioned above. We claim that the best explanation for the data lies in a structured, ordered lexicon, in which certain lexical items are acquired and stored in a particular numerical order, to which morphosyntactic rules and processes may be sensitive. 1 |
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