Morphological and semantic markedness revisited: The realization of plurality across languages

The paper investigates two related questions that concern the realization of plural morphology on nouns across languages. The first question is whether markedness in the sense of complexity in form goes hand in hand with complexity in meaning. In other words, since plural nouns are formally more com...

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Main Author: Alexiadou Artemis
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: De Gruyter 2019-06-01
Series:Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2019-0004