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Zur MASS/COUNT-Distinktion im Bairischen : Artikel und Quantifizierung
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Year: 1999 Publisher: Köln : Institut für Sprachwissenschaft ; Universität zu Köln,

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Things and stuff : the semantics of the count-mass distinction
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ISBN: 1108937977 1108935117 1108832105 1108934358 1108932827 9781108832106 9781108932820 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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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.

Grundelemente der semantischen Struktur von Texten. 3 : Objektargumente
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ISBN: 3871184500 9783871184505 Year: 1980 Volume: 26 26 Publisher: Hamburg Buske


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Count and mass across languages.
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ISBN: 9780199654284 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press


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Mass and count in linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science
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ISBN: 9789027208002 902720800X 9027260435 Year: 2020 Publisher: Amsterdam John Benjamins Publishing Company

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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)"--


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Things and stuff : the semantics of the count-mass distinction
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ISBN: 9781108937979 9781108832106 9781108932820 1108935117 1108937977 1108932827 1108832105 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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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.


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Mass terms : some philosophical problems
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Year: 1979 Volume: v. 6 Publisher: Dordrecht,Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co.,


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L'article LE générique : la généricité sur le mode massif
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Year: 1990 Volume: 23 Publisher: Genève : Droz,

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