title: About some typological characteristics of Number in Niger-Congo languages
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metadata.value: Zheltov, Alexander Yu.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-01-13T19:20:22Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-01-13T19:20:22Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Zheltov A. Yu. About some typological characteristics of Number in Niger-Congo languages. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 154–166.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/26868318.10
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/22199
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The category of Number is often considered as rather simple comparing to such
  categories as case or nominal classification. However, a serious analysis of the
  morphosyntactic characteristics of the category shows that Number is an interesting
  and diverse category. The Niger-Congo languages demonstrate a great
  variety in the morphosyntactic characteristics of Number. At the first glance,
  the number in many languages refers to two types: a uniform marking of the
  number only in the plural (Mande — similar to English), the distinction of the
  singular by gender / class (Bantu — similar to Russian). However, the number
  in Mande and Bantu is fundamentally different from the number in English
  and Russian and refers to another typological category. Two more typological
  varieties in expression of number are demonstrated in the article: a special plural form for the names of people and pets (nyong, Adamawa), a kind of “split”
  under the influence of animacy hierarchy, and marking of number only in adjectives
  in attributive and predicative constructions without marking a number
  on a noun (Maya).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the category of number
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: typology
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Niger-Congo languages
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Bantu
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Mande
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Adamawa
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: About some typological characteristics of Number in Niger-Congo languages
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metadata.value: Article
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