Pluralia tantum nouns and the theory of features: a typology of nouns with non-canonical number properties

Pluralia tantum nouns and the theory of features: a typology of nouns with non-canonical number properties
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复数 tantum 名词和特征理论:具有非规范数属性的名词类型学

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10.1007/s11525-018-9336-0
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2018
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1.4
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Corbett G
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许多语言都有一个有趣的名词类别,即复数名词(pluralia tantum),它具有有限的数的可能性,而在某种意义上,它们不应该。因此,英语双目镜没有单数,这是值得注意的(即,它是不可预测的)。的确,还有其他名词表示由两个重要部分组成的物品,它们的行为相似(眼镜,裤子......);事实上,它们受到“中等大小概括”的影响(Koenig 1999)。但有两个原因值得注意。第一,英语中有许多名词都表示由两个重要部分组成的事物,而这两个部分在这方面并不突出:bicycle、bigraph、Bactrian camel、couple、duo.虽然复数tantum是持续的兴趣,它通常只被认为是英语类型。但这些熟悉的例子提供了一个切入点,一个词汇的集合,一些更奇怪的行为,潜伏在半可预测和意外的缺陷。特别是,一些实例表明,我们不能保持一般的假设,“内部”形态语义规范的范式细胞和它的“外部”形态句法的要求是必然相同的。因此,我对这些迷人的名词进行了全面的分类,以便更充分地理解它们的意义。我从规范名词的概念出发,根据一组正交标准校准不同的非规范属性。
Many languages have an interesting class of nouns, the pluralia tantum, which have restricted number possibilities when, in some sense, they should not. Thus Englishbinocularshas no singular, which is worth noting (that is, it is not predictable). True, there are other nouns denoting items consisting of two significant parts which behave similarly (spectacles,trousers…); indeed they are subject to ‘middle-size generalizations’ (Koenig 1999). But there are two reasons to note such nouns. First there are many English nouns equally denoting items consisting of two significant parts which are unremarkable in this respect:bicycle, bigraph, Bactrian camel, couple, duo… And second, there are languages with number systems roughly comparable to that of English in which the equivalents ofbinocularsandtrousersare normal count nouns: Russianbinokl’, Frenchpantalon. While pluralia tantum are of continuing interest, it is typically only the English type which is considered. But these familiar examples offer an entry point to a collection of lexical items, some with much stranger behaviour, lurking between the semi-predictable and the unexpectedly defective. In particular, some instances demonstrate that we cannot maintain the general assumption that the ‘internal’ morphosemantic specification of a paradigm cell and its ‘external’ morphosyntactic requirement are necessarily identical. I therefore set out a full typology of these fascinating nouns, so that their significance can be more fully appreciated. I start from the notion of canonical noun, and calibrate the different non-canonical properties according to a set of orthogonal criteria.
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