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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ftunitorontoojs:oai:jps.library.utoronto.ca:article/6201 2023-05-15T15:35:34+02:00 On quantifiers and bare nouns in Inuktitut Compton, Richard 2004-01-01 application/pdf https://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/twpl/article/view/6201 eng eng Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto https://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/twpl/article/view/6201/3190 https://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/twpl/article/view/6201 Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics; Vol 23 (2004) 1718-3510 1705-8619 noun quantifier all only DP Inuktitut Inuit Eskimo Baffin determiner covert info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2004 ftunitorontoojs 2020-12-01T10:34:20Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Baffin eskimo* inuit inuktitut University of Toronto: Journal Publishing Services |
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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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Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto |
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