Pluractional Verbs: An Overview

Newman, Paul

doi:10.1515/9783110293500.185

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“…In addition, po can modify adjectives and adverbs, can also be a verbal prefix (indicating past repeated actions) or a locative (distributive) preposition. This distribution is similar to that of pluractional markers (seeHofherr-Cabredo & Laca 2012;Newman 2012;Knežević 2015). 4 For further discussion of the differences between adnominal each in English, elke in Dutch, and po in Serbian, seeRouweler & Hollebrandse (2015) andKnežević (2015).…”

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“…For instance, Muller & Negrão (2012) claimed that the distributive numerals in Karitiana should be analyzed as adverbial operators that pluralize the events and restrict the cardinality of the entities they modify. A plural event may involve the same action iterated several times (repetitions), (same) actions distributed in space, time, or affecting multiple participants or objects, either as a group or individually (Cusic 1981;Newman 2012;Lasersohn 1995). An example of temporal pluractionals in English would be adverbial phrases such as again and again or time after time.…”

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Dancing monkeys in Serbian and Korean – exhaustivity requirements on distributive share markers

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Demirdache

2020

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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In some languages, distributive markers/quantifiers can attach to the argument that is being distributed (the distributive share), as opposed to the restrictor of the sentence (the distributive key). Researchers agree that distributive share markers can also distribute over events (and not only individuals), but disagree as to what these markers are semantically-universal distributive quantifiers or event plurality (pluractional) markers. In this paper, we experimentally probe spatial event distribution. On a universal quantification account, exhaustive distribution over a spatial distributive key is enforced, while on the pluractional analysis there is no such requirement. We carried out two picture verification experiments to test exhaustivity requirements in intransitive sentences with distributive share markers from two typologically different languages: the Serbian marker po and the Korean marker-ssik. We found evidence for an exhaustivity requirement over pluralities of non-atomic individuals (groups), but not over designated spatial locations. We interpret these findings as evidence that the semantics of (spatial) event distribution with distributive share markers involves a (spatial) distributive key. Specifically, po/-ssik have a universal quantificational force (with a meaning akin to per (each)) establishing a distributive relation between individual events and elements of the spatial distributive key. Plural individuals made salient in the visual input can serve to divide up the spatial key into chunks of space that have to be exhausted.

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Section: Distributive Share Markers As Event Plurality Markersmentioning

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Dancing monkeys in Serbian and Korean – exhaustivity requirements on distributive share markers

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Demirdache

2020

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…(P. Newman 2012, Moshinsky 1974, Dixon 1972, S. S. Newman 1944 Semantically, pluractional inflection communicates that there is a multitude of events: either an event happened again and again, or many things happened at the same time. Sentence (4) provides an example from Upriver Halkomelem (Thompson 2009).…”

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Pluractionality, iconicity, and scope in French Sign Language

Kuhn

Aristodemo

2017

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“…6 This research, which explores the notion of pluractionality, draws a very interesting parallel between nominal and verbal plurality by making the hypothesis that certain verbs are capable of denoting sets of events in the same way that some nouns designate sets of objects (cf. (Newman 1980(Newman , 2012; (Laca 2006); (Cabredo & Laca 2012)). The term "pluractionality" thus indicates that "the event denoted by the verb is, in some sense, pluralized: repeated in time, distributed in various locations, holds of many participants, etc."…”

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Manner of motion, evaluative and pluractional morphology

Stošić

2013

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Several works inspired by Talmy’s typology provided a very complete survey and description of various kinds of linguistic elements and strategies across languages for expressing two basic components of motion events: path and manner. This research has mainly focused on lexical and syntactic means of expressing path and manner and how these elements are combined in a single clause. Morphological means are mentioned when talking about encoding the path of motion but hardly ever when studying the expression of manner. This article shows that some languages widely use many affixational and non-affixational processes of “evaluative” and “pluractional” morphology to express manner (e.g., Serbian "leteti" ‘to fly’ > "letuckati" ‘to flutter’, Zoque "wit" ‘to walk’ > "witwitnay" ‘to walk aimlessly’). This research mainly focuses on data from Serbian, but also offers a comparative perspective to highlight the widespread use of such morphological means in encoding manner. It pays particular attention to the role of morphology in the linguistic expression of manner in the semantic domain of motion.

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Pluractional Verbs: An Overview

Cited by 52 publications

References 16 publications

Dancing monkeys in Serbian and Korean – exhaustivity requirements on distributive share markers

Dancing monkeys in Serbian and Korean – exhaustivity requirements on distributive share markers

Pluractionality, iconicity, and scope in French Sign Language

Manner of motion, evaluative and pluractional morphology

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