Plurality as a Phi-Feature in Non-Inflectional Plurals

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dc.contributor.authorMcDonald, Brittany
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-20T06:22:50Z
dc.date.available2020-11-20T06:22:50Z
dc.date.issued2020-11-19
dc.description.abstractSome languages, such as Pirahã, express plurality through means other than plural inflectional morphology. Wiltschko (2008) calls these alternative plural marking strategies non-inflectional plurals and develops several diagnostic criteria for determining whether or not a language is an inflectional plural-marking language, illustrated with examples from English (an inflectional plural-marking language) Halkomelem (a non-inflectional plural language). These criteria pertain to obligatoriness, agreement, compounding, and derivational morphology. This paper expands on these criteria, drawing two more from Greenberg’s (1963) Universals, to answer the following research question: Do non-inflectional plurals possess a plural phi-feature? This paper explores this question by looking at certain properties of Khmer and Thai, two languages which appear to have non-inflectional plurals, to look for any evidence of the presence of phi-features in their respective plural-marking strategies.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/38397
dc.identifier.issn2371-2643
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/112766
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Culturesen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.subjectLinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectsyntaxen_US
dc.subjectmorphologyen_US
dc.subjectinflectionen_US
dc.subjectderivationen_US
dc.subjectpluralen_US
dc.subjectphi-featuresen_US
dc.subjectThaien_US
dc.subjectKhmeren_US
dc.titlePlurality as a Phi-Feature in Non-Inflectional Pluralsen_US
dc.typejournal articleen_US
dc.typeworking paperen_US
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