Silva Nurmio

List of John Benjamins publications in which Silva Nurmio is involved.

Articles

Nurmio, Silva 2017 The development and typology of number suppletion in adjectives Diachronica 34:2, pp. 127–174 | Article

This paper looks at the cross-linguistically rare phenomenon of number suppletion in adjectives. I consider how such suppletion arises by looking at six known examples with a special focus on the Brittonic languages (Breton, Cornish and Welsh), which are discussed as an extended case study.… read more

Nurmio, Silva and David Willis 2016 The rise and fall of a minor category: The case of the Welsh numerative Journal of Historical Linguistics 6:2, pp. 297–339 | Article

Some languages use a special form of the noun, a “numerative”, after some or all numerals. In such languages, a distinct numerative is typically not available for all nouns, but rather only for a small subset, forming a morphological “minor category” (Corbett 2000). We examine how such a system… read more