Lexical Plurals: A Morphosemantic Approach

by Paolo Acquaviva

This book explores the wide variety of cases in which the plural of nouns is lexical. When a plural is lexicalized it becomes part of what it is to know a certain word: pence, for example, is lexical because it means a plurality of a certain kind - a multiple value, not a set of physical objects like pennies - and knowing this reading is knowing the word. Languages exhibit countless examples of similar word-dependent irregularities in the form and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199534217
• ISBN13: 9780199534210
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"