The Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number

This book offers detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of grammatical number in language. It draws on work from a range of subdisciplines - including morphology, syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics - and will be a valuable resource for students and scholars in all areas of theoretical, descriptive, and experimental linguistics.

Patricia Cabredo Hofherr is a Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Her work examines the interaction between morphology, syntax, and semantics. Her recent research focuses on cross-linguistic variation in argument backgrounding strategies, including passives and indefinites, and on the distributive dependencies involving event pluralities.
Jenny Doetjes is Professor of Semantics and Language Variation at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her research concentrates on cross-linguistic variation and similarity in relation to semantics and cognition. She has worked on various phenomena across typologically different languages, including the count-mass distinction, quantity expressions, the relation between quantity and gradability, and wh-in situ questions.

1: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Jenny Doetjes: Introduction Part I: Foundations 2: Jakub Dotläil: Semantic approaches to number 3: Alan Bale: Number and the mass-count distinction 4: Jenny Doetjes: Number and quantity expressions 5: Pierina Cheung: Individuation: Number marking languages vs classifier languages 6: Niels O. Schiller and Rinus Verdonschot: Number in the mental lexicon Part II: Number in the nominal domain 7: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr: Nominal number morphology 8: Martina Wiltschko: The syntax of number markers 9: Henriëtte de Swart: Bare nouns and number 10: Jenny Doetjes: Number and numeral classifiers 11: Artemis Alexiadou: Lexical plurals 12: Hanna de Vries: Collective nouns 13: Myriam Dali and Éric Mathieu: Singulative systems 14: Britta Biedermann, Nora Fieder, and Karen Smith-Lock: Nominal number and language pathologies Part III: Number in the event domain 15: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr: Verbal plurality cross-linguistically 16: Sigrid Beck: Multiple events and 'N preposition N' 17: Berit Gehrke: Multiple event readings and occasional-type adjectives 18: Donka F. Farkas: Multiple event readings with dependent indefinites Part IV: Case studies 19: Nisrine Al-Zahre: Dual in Standard and Syrian Arabic 20: Franc Maruši- and Rok Žaucer: Dual in Slovenian 21: Scott Grimm: Inverse number in Dagaare 22: Satoshi Tomioka: Japanese -tati and generalized associative plurals 23: Lindsay Butler: Non-inflectional plural in Yucatec Maya: Syntax and processing 24: Marcelo Ferreira: Bare nominals and number in Brazilian Portuguese 25: Maarten Mous: Nominal number in Cushitic 26: Lutz Marten: Noun classes and plurality in Bantu languages 27: Moles Paul, Anne Zribi-Hertz, and Herby Glaude: Countability and number without number inflection: Evidence from Haitian Creole 28: Suzi Lima: Production and comprehension studies on the mass-count distinction in Yudja 29: Malte Zimmermann: Verbal number in Chadic, with special reference to Hausa 30: Robert Henderson: Dependent numerals in Kaqchikel 31: Roland Pfau and Markus Steinbach: Number in sign languages 32: I Wayan Arka: Number in Marori 33: I Wayan Arka and Mary Dalrymple: Number in Balinese References Index