Pluractionality and distributive numerals

Distributive Numerals in Tlingit: Pluractionality and Distributivity

Distributive Pluractionality and Plurality in Ingush: The case of G.uozh/lieg

Pluractionality, also referred to as verbal plurality (Yu 2003) or event plurality (Wood 2007), is a morphological category that indicates some sort of “multiplicity” in the semantic reading of a verb. The prototypical interpretation of a pluractional verb is that of iterativity (repeated actions). This reading is illustrated in the following examples from Ingush, a Nakh language of the Northea...

Pluractionality and the Unity of the Event

This paper exposes shortcomings of an analysis to singleevent plural verbs (Cusic’s event-internal pluractionals) based on temporal discontinuity. It shows how to ground discontinuity on the participant used to measure out the event, by forcing breaches in the property of Mapping-to-SubObject that its theta role should have. This provides an explanation for why phases cannot be described by the...

Interactive numerals

Although Arabic numerals (like '2016' and '3.14') are ubiquitous, we show that in interactive computer applications they are often misleading and surprisingly unreliable. We introduce interactive numerals as a new concept and show, like Roman numerals and Arabic numerals, interactive numerals introduce another way of using and thinking about numbers. Properly understanding interactive numerals ...

Comparing Distributive and Non - Distributive Conflict Transitions

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