Numerals

This dissertation addresses the question of what a 'plural' DP is with special attention to numeral-containing DPs. I argue that cardinal numerals have more than one possible merger site in the DP and that the availability of a collective interpretation of numeral-containing DPs…

Analyses of Arabic numerals have been conducted from medieval times to the present without the use of an appropriate or coherent linguistic theory, namely, one taking into account the evolutionary path which sub-components of the numeral system have taken. Consequently, importan…