Pluralities, clusters and singulatives : A view from Ukrainian

Authors

WĄGIEL Marcin SHLIKHUTKA Natalia

Year of publication 2023
Type Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description In this paper, we will examine Ukrainian word formations such as hrad `hail' ~ hrad-yna `a hailstone' and volos `a hair' ~ voloss'-a `hair (as a mass)' and propose a mereotopological analysis on which the collective morpheme forms a cluster of integrated objects by introducing certain constraints on the spatial configuration of a plurality thereof. On the other hand, the singulative morpheme is an atomizer that selects for an aggregate predicate, i.e., a property of entities prototypically conceptualized as clusters, and turns it into a predicate of discrete singular integrated wholes. We show that the operations can also be applied recursively.
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