Division and distributivity: The case of Hungarian -nként

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Various diagnostics suggest that English per expresses the arithmetical operation of division, rather than being a distributivity marker like each. Hungarian –nként displays the same properties, suggesting that –nként is also a “ratio marker” in that sense. At the same time, however, –nként has uses that per lacks, uses that suggest that –nként is a distributivity marker of some kind. This talk aims to resolve this tension, and identify the semantic commonality between distributivity and ratio marking that unifies the uses of –nként into a single morpheme.