"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 projections exist depending on the features they specify. In doing so, we make a strong claim for a close mapping between the syntactic structure and the semantics in the noun phrase, since each node corresponds to a different interpretation of number. Despite some technical implementations, the book is accessible to linguists working outside any particular syntax-semantic framework, since we propose generalizations that are applicable in many, if not all, models of grammar. The book focuses on Arabic, but also discusses a number of languages including English, French, Ojibwe, Blackfoot, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Turkish, Persian, and Western Armenian"--.

• A Theory of Distributed Number
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• List of tables
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Goal
  • 1.2 Theoretical assumptions
  • 1.3 Paucity
  • 1.4 Clusivity
  • 1.5 Research questions and hypotheses
  • 1.6 Overview of the book
• Chapter 2. The nP domain
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Collectives
  • 2.3 Bare nouns
  • 2.4 Lexical plurals
  • 2.5 Conclusion
• Chapter 3. The lower NumP domain
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Singulars
  • 3.3 Singulatives
  • 3.4 Plurals
    • 3.4.1 The sound plural
    • 3.4.2 The broken plural
    • 3.4.3 Sound plurals and broken plurals are on Num
  • 3.5 Duals
  • 3.6 Conclusion
• Chapter 4. The higher NumP domain
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Plural of the singulative
  • 4.3 Contrasting plurals
  • 4.4 Conclusion
• Chapter 5. Broken plurals and interpretation
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Agreement mismatches in Arabic: A puzzle
  • 5.3 Zabbal (2002)
  • 5.4 Broken plurals are hybrid nouns
  • 5.5 Conclusion
• Chapter 6. Bare plurals
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 General number and plurality: A puzzle
  • 6.3 Atomization and renominalization
  • 6.4 Conclusion
• Chapter 7. Number and diachrony
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Distributed Morphology and diachrony
  • 7.3 The analysis
  • 7.4 Conclusion
• Chapter 8. Conclusions
• Bibliography
• Index