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      The structure of Polish numerically-quantified expressions

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      Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
      Ubiquity Press
      syntax, morphology, numerals, agreement, case, Polish

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          Cross-linguistically, numerically-quantified expressions vary in terms of their internal syntactic structure (e.g. the category of the numeral, its position in the nominal projection) as well as interaction with the external syntax (e.g. occurring in the subject positions, determining agreement and concord). Here, I investigate Polish numerically-quantified expressions of the 5+ type, such as pięć czarownic ‘five witches’, focusing on three morphosyntactic properties: the genitive case on the quantified noun, the accusative case on the numeral, and the occurrence of 3SG neuter verbal agreement. I argue that all of these properties can be captured within existing theories of case and agreement, in terms of a null head that takes the quantified noun phrase as its complement, and a numeral phrase as its specifier. Genitive on the noun is structural, accusative on the numeral is licensed by a null preposition, and default agreement is a result of the case-discriminating nature of verbal agreement. This proposal has implications for the broader theory of agreement and case assignment in Slavic languages and beyond.

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                Journal
                2397-1835
                Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
                Ubiquity Press
                2397-1835
                13 March 2020
                2020
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                : 1
                : 31
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                [1 ]University of Maryland, College Park, US
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                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6189-9852
                Article
                10.5334/gjgl.880
                90d5d62c-984b-4859-a0c5-cc8317825db7
                Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s)

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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                : 25 December 2018
                : 27 November 2019
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                General linguistics,Linguistics & Semiotics
                syntax,Polish,case,agreement,numerals,morphology
                General linguistics, Linguistics & Semiotics
                syntax, Polish, case, agreement, numerals, morphology

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