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A classical viewpoint claims that reality consists of both things and stuff, and that we need a way to discuss these aspects of reality. This is achieved by using +count terms to talk about things while using +mass terms to talk about stuff. Bringing together contributions from internationally-renowned experts across interrelated disciplines, this book explores the relationship between mass and count nouns in a number of syntactic environments, and across a range of languages. It both explains how languages differ in their methods for describing these two fundamental categories of reality, and shows the many ways that modern linguistics looks to describe them. It also explores how the notions of count and mass apply to 'abstract nouns', adding a new dimension to the countability discussion. With its pioneering approach to the fundamental questions surrounding mass-count distinction, this book will be essential reading for researchers in formal semantics and linguistic typology.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics --- Language and languages --- Mass nouns --- Numerals --- Quantifiers --- Philosophy --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative

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"The mass-count distinction is a morpho-syntactic distinction among nouns that is generally taken to have semantic content. This content is generally taken to reflect a conceptual, cognitive, or ontological distinction and relates to philosophical and cognitive notions of unity, identity, and counting. The mass-count distinction is certainly one of the most interesting and puzzling topics in syntax and semantics that bears on ontology and cognitive science. In many ways, the topic remains under-researched, though, across languages and with respect to particular phenomena within a given language, with respect to its connection to cognition, and with respect to the way it may be understood ontologically. This volume aims to contribute to some of the gaps in the research on the topic, in particular the relation between the syntactic mass-count distinction and semantic and cognitive distinctions, diagnostics for mass and count, the distribution and role of numeral classifiers, abstract mass nouns, and object mass nouns (furniture, police force, clothing).The mass-count distinction is a morpho-syntactic distinction among nouns that is generally taken to have semantic content. This content is generally taken to reflect a conceptual, cognitive, or ontological distinction and relates to philosophical and cognitive notions of unity, identity, and counting. The mass-count distinction is certainly one of the most interesting and puzzling topics in syntax and semantics that bears on ontology and cognitive science. In many ways, the topic remains under-researched, though, across languages and with respect to particular phenomena within a given language, with respect to its connection to cognition, and with respect to the way it may be understood ontologically. This volume aims to contribute to some of the gaps in the research on the topic, in particular the relation between the syntactic mass-count distinction and semantic and cognitive distinctions, diagnostics for mass and count, the distribution and role of numeral classifiers, abstract mass nouns, and object mass nouns (furniture, police force, clothing)"--

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Semantics. --- Mass nouns. --- Numerals. --- Philosophy. --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Psycholinguistics --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology)

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Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Grammaire comparée et générale --- Langage et langues --- Quantificateurs (Linguistique) --- Mass nouns --- Philosophy --- Quantifiers --- Noms massiques --- Philosophie

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Lexicology. Semantics --- Philosophy of language --- Semantics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Set theory --- Sémantique --- Grammaire comparée et générale --- Logique symbolique et mathématique --- Théorie des ensembles --- Mass nouns --- Noms massiques --- -Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- 801.56 --- Aggregates --- Classes (Mathematics) --- Ensembles (Mathematics) --- Mathematical sets --- Sets (Mathematics) --- Theory of sets --- Mathematics --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Algebra of logic --- Logic, Universal --- Mathematical logic --- Symbolic and mathematical logic --- Symbolic logic --- Algebra, Abstract --- Metamathematics --- Syllogism --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Grammar, Comparative --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical. --- Semantics. --- Set theory. --- Mass nouns. --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Sémantique --- Grammaire comparée et générale --- Logique symbolique et mathématique --- Théorie des ensembles --- Nouns, Mass --- Mass terms --- Non-count nouns --- Quantifiable nouns --- Unbounded nouns --- Uncountable nouns --- Noun --- Number --- Logique mathématique --- Linguistique mathematique --- Linguistique --- Semantique