{"pk":48959,"title":"The Singular/Plural Contrast in Japanese: Nominal Mapping in Classifier Languages","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>Japanese noun phrases are not morphologically inflected for singular/plural contrast. However, the language employs several optional plural markers. This paper argues that while Japanese lacks morphological singular/plural distinctions, the distinction is reflected semantically, as plural markers can only attach to count nouns. Additionally, the most productive plural marker, -tati, is found to be exclusively associative. This finding supports the nominal mapping hypothesis proposed by Chierchia (1998a, 1998b, 2010), indicating that Japanese does not serve as a counterexample to the framework.</p>","language":"jpn","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[],"section":"Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4d45420s","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Koji","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kawahara","name_suffix":"","institution":"Nagoya University of Foreign Studies","department":"British and American Studies"}],"date_submitted":"2025-07-11T10:58:10.380000+06:00","date_accepted":"2025-07-12T02:01:41.574000+06:00","date_published":"2025-07-07T16:00:00+06:00","render_galley":{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/japanesekoreanlinguistics/article/48959/galley/36883/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/japanesekoreanlinguistics/article/48959/galley/36883/download/"}]}