Eric Mathieu

List of John Benjamins publications in which Eric Mathieu is involved.

Titles

A Theory of Distributed Number

Myriam Dali and Eric Mathieu

The objective of this book is to develop a deeper understanding of the form and interpretation of number. Using insights from Generative syntax and Distributed Morphology, we develop a theory of distributed number, arguing that number can be associated with several functional heads and that these… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 269] 2021. xi, 153 pp.

Variation within and across Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 41st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ottawa, 5–7 May 2011

Edited by Marie-Hélène Côté and Eric Mathieu

This volume is a selection of twenty peer-reviewed articles first presented at the 41st annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), held at the University of Ottawa in 2011. They are thematically linked by a broad notion of variation across languages, dialects, speakers, time,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 333] 2014. viii, 426 pp.

Articles (5) | Order by:

Dali, Myriam et Eric Mathieu 2016 Les pluriels internes féminins de l’arabe tunisien Lexical plurals and beyond, Lauwers, Peter and Marie Lammert (eds.), pp. 253–271 | Article

L’objectif de cet article est de rendre compte des pluriels simples et doubles de l’arabe dans le cadre de la théorie des nominaux et de l’individuation de Borer (2005). En particulier, nous étudions ces pluriels dans les constructions où l’accord entre le verbe et le pluriel est déviant et… read more

Mathieu, Eric and Gita Zareikar 2015 Measure words, plurality, and cross-linguistic variation Linguistic Variation 15:2, pp. 169–200 | Article

In the context of Borer’s (2005) theory of nominal classification, the aim of this paper is to explain why measure words in some languages (English, French, Hebrew) necessarily take an -s (two bottles of milk versus *two bottle of milk) while in other languages (Azeri, Persian, Ojibwe) measure… read more

Mathieu, Eric 2014 Nominalizations in Ojibwe Cross-linguistic Investigations of Nominalization Patterns, Paul, Ileana (ed.), pp. 3–24 | Article

The aim of this paper is to account for nominalization processes in Ojibwe including agent and non-agent nominalizations. I make two main claims: (1) in Ojibwe (even) simple nouns (result nominals, cf. Grimshaw 1990) have internal (verbal) structure; (2) agent nominals in Ojibwe are not exactly… read more

Mathieu, Eric 2014 Many a plural Weak Referentiality, Aguilar-Guevara, Ana, Bert Le Bruyn and Joost Zwarts (eds.), pp. 157–182 | Article

The aim of the present paper is to contribute to the literature on plurals by showing that, cross-linguistically, not all plurals are unmarked semantically. Focusing on Arabic, where the plural comes in many guises, and proposing different syntactic positions for its different manifestations, I… read more

Mathieu, Eric 2009 From local blocking to Cyclic Agree: The role and meaning of determiners in the history of French Determiners: Universals and variation, Ghomeshi, Jila, Ileana Paul and Martina Wiltschko (eds.), pp. 123–158 | Article

This paper shows that, rather than being necessary for argumenthood or referentiality, determiners in Old French were optional, but used in relation to discourse properties such as focus/emphasis on the one hand, and in relation to phonological/metric requirements on the other. The choice between… read more