Re: THEORY: Number and animacy

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 08:29:27 +0100, Benct Philip Jonsson
><bpjonsson@...> wrote:
>Does anyone know of a natlang which distinguishes
>number for animate, but not for inanimate nouns?
>/BP 8^)>
>--
>Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se
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Corbett's "Number" lists several (assuming I recall correctly).
Unfortunately I don't remember which they were, and I also no longer have a
copy of the book.

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Where it might be available:

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Greville G. Corbett, Number (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xx+358. Gunter Senft
(ed. ...
journals.cambridge.org/article_S0022226702261976

Amazon.com: Number: Books: Greville G. Corbett
Amazon.com: Number: Books: Greville G. Corbett by Greville G. Corbett.
www.amazon.com/Number-Greville-G-Corbett/dp/0521649706

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Reviews of it:

LINGUIST List 12.1357: Corbett, Number (2nd review)9-53) focuses on number
values available to a given noun or pronoun. To give a typology of possible
number systems Corbett considers the Number Hierarchy ...
www.linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-1357.html

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Subject: 12.1357, Review: Corbett, Number (2nd review) Moderators:
Anthony ... To give a typology of possible number systems Corbett considers
the Number ...
listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0105c&L=linguist&D=0&P=4966

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Subject: 12.1074, Review: Corbett, Number Moderators: Anthony Aristar,
Wayne State U.<[log in to unmask]> Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. <[log in
to ...
listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0104c&L=linguist&P=1917

SILEBR 2003/005 — Review of “Number”
Review of Number. By Greville G. Corbett. ... After an introductory
chapter, Corbett shows that there are more number values in language than
just singular ...
www.sil.org:8090/silebr/2003/silebr2003-005

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Papers citing it:
Paper Details
Title:, Greville G. Corbett, Number (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xx+358. Author:, Alan
Timberlake ...
linguistlist.org/pubs/papers/browse-papers-action.cfm?PaperID=3063

Grammatical number - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Corbett, G. (2000). Number. Cambridge University Press. Greenberg, Joseph
H. (1972) Numeral classifiers and substantival number: Problems in the
genesis of ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_number