Number marking and quantification over sets in Kazym Khanty

Daria Sidorkina (sidorckina.darya@yandex.ru) and Alexandra Shikunova (notalexandrashikunova@gmail.com)
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Daria Sidorkina: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Alexandra Shikunova: National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Abstract: In Kazym Khanty, there is a negative pronoun that can bear number and possessivity markers and whose semantics we investigate. We show that the meaning of number marking on negative and interrogative pronouns is different, although both occur in downward-entailing (DE) environments. We claim that there is a count form which is syncretic with the singular and can denote both singular and plural entities and support this with data about number marking in noun-numeral and pseudo-partitive constructions. We also provide a compositional semantic analysis of the negative pronoun.

Keywords: negative pronouns; number semantics; quantification; Khanty; nanosyntax (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2023
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Published in WP BRP Series: Linguistics / LNG, /November 2023, pages 1-14

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