In:The Fine-grained Structure of the Lexical Area: Gender, appreciatives and nominal suffixes in Spanish
Antonio Fábregas
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 39] 2024
► pp. 258–283
Chapter 8Inflectional number
Published online: 8 March 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.39.c8
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.39.c8
Article outline
- 8.1Overview of the chapter
- 8.2Plurals
- 8.2.1-s is not plural: The Borer view
- 8.2.2-s is not a divisor either
- 8.2.3-s as plain number
- 8.3Singulars
- 8.3.1Singular is unmarked
- 8.3.2The alleged |1| cardinal behaves differently from any other cardinal
- 8.3.3There are no syntactic contexts that force a numeral reading of un
- 8.3.4Syncretism relations and the absence of duals and trials in Spanish
- 8.4Number and absence of number
- 8.4.1Coordination
- 8.4.2A reinterpretation of pluralia and singularia tantum
