TY - JOUR
T1 - Innu-aimun plurality
AU - Gillon, Carrie
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by funding from the Department of Linguistics and the Faculty of Arts at Memorial University of Newfoundland ( Social Sciences and Humanites Research Council of Canada grant #410-2008-0378, awarded to Julie Brittain and Social Sciences and Humanites Research Council of Canada grant #833-2004-1033 , awarded to Marguerite MacKenzie) as well as by an ISER research grant. I would like to thank my consultants, Marilyn Martin, Basile Penashue, Kanani Penashue and Anne Rich, without whom this paper would not have been possible. I would also like to thank Phil Branigan, Julie Brittain, and Marguerite MacKenzie (who deserves a special thanks for also helping me with Innu-aimun spelling), as well as Lisa Matthewson, the audience at SULA 5, held at MIT and the audience at the Algonquian Workshop, held at the University of Ottawa. A special thanks to the anonymous reviewers, who provided me with many helpful comments and suggestions. All errors are my own.
PY - 2015/7/1
Y1 - 2015/7/1
N2 - There is an ongoing debate about the syntax and semantics of plurality. On one end of the spectrum, Borer and Ouwayda (2010) argue that all (true) plurality resides in Div and provides atomic structure to the noun; any other non-Div plurality does not provide any semantic content. On the other end, Butler (2012) argues that plurality can occur in multiple positions (including adjoined to DP), and each may be associated with different semantics. Intermediate positions suggest that there are two or three different types of plural that occupy different positions (. Acquaviva, 2008; Harbour, 2008, 2011; Alexiadou, 2010; Mathieu, 2012a,b, 2013, 2014). In this paper, I show that there are two different types of plural in Innu-aimun (Algonquian): a counting plural (following Mathieu, 2013, 2014) and a lexical plural (following Acquaviva, 2008; Alexiadou, 2010).
AB - There is an ongoing debate about the syntax and semantics of plurality. On one end of the spectrum, Borer and Ouwayda (2010) argue that all (true) plurality resides in Div and provides atomic structure to the noun; any other non-Div plurality does not provide any semantic content. On the other end, Butler (2012) argues that plurality can occur in multiple positions (including adjoined to DP), and each may be associated with different semantics. Intermediate positions suggest that there are two or three different types of plural that occupy different positions (. Acquaviva, 2008; Harbour, 2008, 2011; Alexiadou, 2010; Mathieu, 2012a,b, 2013, 2014). In this paper, I show that there are two different types of plural in Innu-aimun (Algonquian): a counting plural (following Mathieu, 2013, 2014) and a lexical plural (following Acquaviva, 2008; Alexiadou, 2010).
KW - Algonquian
KW - Count
KW - Lexical plural
KW - Mass
KW - Plurality
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U2 - 10.1016/j.lingua.2015.05.006
DO - 10.1016/j.lingua.2015.05.006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84934938764
VL - 162
SP - 128
EP - 148
JO - Lingua
JF - Lingua
SN - 0024-3841
ER -