Pluractional verbs that grammaticise number through the part-of relation
- Author(s): Lucia M. Tovena
- Source: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2008 , pp 233-248
- Publication Date November 2010
This paper pursues an analysis of verbs like Italian mordicchiare (nibble) as event-internal pluractional verbs that denote composite single events where the predicate is distributed on the fragments of one entity, and grammaticise a local form of number through the part-of relation. This opens the possibility of reading number marking in aspectual terms, whereby fragmenting is a form of modification that perturbs the mapping between event and object.
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