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The Silent "Number" in Complex Cardinals
Yuta Tatsumi
382-390 (complete paper or proceedings contents)

Abstract

This paper argues that a multiplier and a multiplicand in complex cardinals have a different status both in syntax and in semantics, contra Ionin & Matushansky's (2006) unified analysis. More specifically, I propose that a multiplicand is the head of UnitP and can take the silent "number" as its complement (Kayne 2005). On the other hand, a multiplier is always located in Spec,UnitP. This non-uniform treatment of multipliers and multiplicands can capture various properties of complex cardinals.

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Proceedings of the 35th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Wm. G. Bennett, Lindsay Hracs, and Dennis Ryan Storoshenko
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