Nurmio (2023)
De Arbres
- Nurmio, Silva. 2023. 'Towards a typology of singulatives : Definition and overview of markers', Deborah Arbes (ed.) , Number categories : Dynamics, Contact, Typology, Studia Typologica 32 , de Gruyter, Berlin, 155-182, texte. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110986600-005.
- étude typologique des singulatifs. Le breton y apparaît pour le suffixe -enn, et pour les stratégies singulatives pré-nominales comme penn- dans pemoc'h, ou loen-kezeg 'cheval'.
Abstract: "The singulative is a category that has never been mapped out crosslinguistically. This article begins to do that, starting with a definition and a disambiguation of terminology related to grammatical methods of individuation and unitization. The singulative is argued to be one strategy to denote individuals and units, and it occurs as part of many different number systems. I present a typological overview of markers, both those which are straightforward to analyse as singulatives and more ambiguous examples. This allows us to test and define the boundaries of this category and its overlap with others (e.g. the diminutive). I also suggest some diachronic developments which further illustrate the relationship between singulatives and other categories."