Collective mass affixes: when derivation restricts functional structure

• Marijke De Belde ^[1]
  1. [1] Utrecht University

     Utrecht University

     Países Bajos

     
• Localización: Lingua: International review of general linguistics, ISSN 0024-3841, Nº 126, 2013, págs. 32-50
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this paper I discuss a class of nouns which strongly resist number marking, viz. collective nouns (e.g. cutlery). At first sight they falsify the claim that roots can combine with all morphosyntactic structures. I show that they do not: collectives are not roots, but derivations that contain a featureless root and an n0 with a feature specification that is semantically incompatible with number marking.