Cardinals, Volume 79: The Syntax and Semantics of Cardinal-Containing Expressions

by Ora Matushansky and Tania Ionin

Book Overview

An argument that complex cardinals are not extra-linguistic but built using standard syntax and standard principles of semantic composition.

In Cardinals, Tania Ionin and Ora Matushansky offer a semantic and syntactic analysis of nominal expressions containing complex cardinals (for example, two hundred and thirty-five books). They show that complex cardinals are not an extra-linguistic phenomenon (as is often assumed)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262038730
• ISBN13: 9780262038737
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher