Almost all languages have some ways of categorizing nouns. Languages of South-East Asia
have classifiers used with numerals, while most Indo-European languages have two or three …

Hungarian is spoken by 12-14 million people worldwide. A unique language, completely
unrelated to the languages of its neighbouring countries, it boasts a grammar full of complex …

This book provides a unique, up-to-date survey of individual Uralic languages and sub-
groupings from Finnish to Selkup. Spoken by more than 25 million native speakers, the …

1.1. Aims This chapter is a descriptive survey of the principal phenomena surrounding
cardinal numerals in attribution to nouns, with some concentration on European languages …

The theoretical focus of my thesis is the methodology of establishing the hierarchy of
functional projections. I argue that four factors influence the hierarchy: mapping to …

We present an overview of classifiers, a subgroup of what Simone & Masini (this volume)
call Light Nouns. Three major types have been distinguished: group, sortal and mensural …

This chapter illustrates various semantic types of quantifiers, such as generalized existential,
generalized universal, proportional, definite and partitive which are defined in the Quantifier …

This MA thesis deals with the Hungarian–nyi suffix. This suffix has a variety of uses: it
attaches to container classifiers, such as bottle and glass, and turns them into explicit …

After presenting some basic genetic, historical and typological information about Modern
Hebrew this chapter outlines the quantification patterns it expresses. It illustrates various …

This paper provides an analysis of Hungarian sortal classifiers, shedding light on the
complex interplay between classifiers, plurality and kind interpretation in the language. We …