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dc.title | THE SEMANTICS OF PLURALITY IN BURMESE | |
dc.contributor.author | KEELY NEW ZUO QI | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-28T18:00:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-02-28T18:00:59Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-01-14 | |
dc.identifier.citation | KEELY NEW ZUO QI (2021-01-14). THE SEMANTICS OF PLURALITY IN BURMESE. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/186853 | |
dc.description.abstract | I investigate the semantics of Burmese plural morphemes, twe/dwe, myà, and tó/dó. In the literature, plural expressions are often classified by whether their referent consists of atoms that are homogeneous or non-homogeneous. I argue that this insufficient in capturing the differences observed amongst plural expressions in Burmese. I suggest that a productive way to classify plurals is in terms of extendedness: whether the referents of plural expressions can include atoms that do not satisfy the relevant description of the overt nominal(s) in the expression. I thus report that plurals formed with twe/dwe and myà are consistently non-extending, and plurals formed with tó/dó are extending. I further report that the associative plural tó/dó has an internal plural use, where the multiplicity inference is satisfied internally by the referents named in the expression. I propose that the contribution of tó/dó is an at-issue post-supposition evaluated after the primary assertions of the sentence. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.subject | semantics, plural markers, associative plurals, Burmese, post-suppositions, plurality | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.contributor.department | ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE | |
dc.contributor.supervisor | Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine | |
dc.description.degree | Master's | |
dc.description.degreeconferred | MASTER OF ARTS (RSH-FASS) | |
Appears in Collections: | Master's Theses (Open) |
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