On quantifiers and bare nouns in Inuktitut

In this paper I examine nouns and quantifiers in Inuktitut, arguing that an account that assumes covert determiners is problematic. Instead, nouns in Inuktitut are shown to be arguments by default, only receiving predicative readings when additional morphology is added. Furthermore, the behaviour of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Compton, Richard
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto 2004
Subjects:
noun
quantifier
all
only
DP
Inuktitut
Inuit
Eskimo
Baffin
determiner
covert
eskimo*
inuit
inuktitut
Online Access:https://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/twpl/article/view/6201
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Summary:In this paper I examine nouns and quantifiers in Inuktitut, arguing that an account that assumes covert determiners is problematic. Instead, nouns in Inuktitut are shown to be arguments by default, only receiving predicative readings when additional morphology is added. Furthermore, the behaviour of nouns and the types of quantifiers present in the language point to a lack of determiner heads in the syntax.

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