count and mass nouns
The Lexical Semantics of English Count and Mass Nouns
... The situation is not dissimilar for the division within common nouns between mass nouns and count nouns: on the one hand, nonce formations which give rise to the c[r] ...
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Conversions of count nouns into mass nouns in French: the roles of semantic and pragmatic factors in their interpretations
... of count nouns into mass nouns in ...a count noun can be used as a mass ...interpreting count → mass conversions in French, and, more essentially, what types of ...
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SEMANTIC AND PRAGMATIC FACTORS IN THE INTERPRETATION OF CONVERSIONS OF COUNT NOUNS INTO MASS NOUNS IN FRENCH 1 DAVID NICOLAS
... common nouns are divided into two morpho-syntactic subclasses, count nouns and mass nouns (the latter, but not the former, being invariable in grammatical ...contexts, count ...
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Mass nouns, count nouns and non-count nouns: Philosophical aspects
... identically to the plural nouns. Thus, for instance, although we learn ‘how much counts as an apple, and how much as another’, there is no learning ‘how much counts as some apples, and how much as more apples’ — ...
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TITLE: Mass nouns, count nouns and non-count nouns: Philosophical aspects
... plural nouns are nowhere in the picture. Once plural CNs are factored in, the dichotomy with CNs just disappears. An advocate of a putative category of MNs might perhaps protest that it would be sufficient, to ...
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Count-mass Distinction in the Acquisition of English Articles by Persian Learners of English
... for count-mass distinction in ...that mass nouns possess cumulativity of ...a mass term such as salt is true of each of the two items, it can be true of those two items in ...a ...
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Investigating the concept of individuation and judgment of quantity: Evidence from count-mass distinction
... 35 count and 15 mass ...the count nouns were ant, bath salt, bean, bubble, cherry, chocolate chip, cigarette, cloud, clove, cookie, crayon, egg, freckle, grape, ice cube, leaf, marble, noodle, ...
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Can You See the (Linguistic) Difference? Exploring Mass/Count Distinction in Vision
... between count and mass nouns in the visual modal- ...by count/mass ...as mass exhibit a lower variance both internally ...
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Counting in Context: count/mass variation and restrictions on coercion in collective artifact nouns
... the mass/count distinction, because mass nouns like furniture have discrete objects in their denotation, rather than undifferentiated stuff, it does mirror the distinction between what we can ...
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A Statistical Investigation into the Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Mass and Count Nouns: Morphosyntactic and Semantic Perspectives
... that mass nouns are associ- ated with homogeneity and cumulativity, while count nouns are associated with ...not count as ...that mass nouns are non-atomic and exhibit ...
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Events and the Mass-Count Distinction
... the mass-count distinction on which count nouns or numeral classifiers convey unity and thus countability and mass nouns the lack of ...the mass-count distinction ...
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The Mass-Count Distinction: Acquisition and Disambiguation
... The key notion that characterizes the difference between count nouns and mass nouns has been termed “shape” (cf. (Rijkhoff, 2002)) or “bounding” (cf. (Jackendoff, 1991) or (Langacker, 1991)), ...
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Towards a semantics for mass nouns derived from gradable expressions
... of course: much more detailed work is needed about this. And in particular, which formalism is used for such or such a construction may vary from language to language.) A final remark is in order. The notion of ...
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The abundance inference of pluralised mass nouns is an implicature: Evidence from Greek
... the mass nouns was computed around half of the time, and the multiplicity inference of the count nouns was in between the two at around ...
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A sense based lexicon of count and mass expressions: The Bochum English Countability Lexicon
... on nouns whose senses occur in more than one class allowing a closer look on polysemy and homonymy with regard to ...concerning mass nouns is briefly discussed pointing to further ...
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Issues of Mass and Count: Dealing with ‘Dual Life’ Nouns
... Examples such as these make one want to go back to the earlier examples of Event-Result and Kind-Instance and reanalyze them also, making it become easier to see them too as perhaps exem- plifying both ways in which a ...
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Ms. Particular Presents: Mass, Count, and Collective Nouns
... Count nouns usually* made plural by adding an s or an es to the end of the word Some notable exceptions in scientific writing: Words ending in is change to es—analysis, basis, thesis Words ending in ix or ...
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Nouns are both mass and count: Evidence from unclassified nouns in adult and child Mandarin Chinese
... a count classifier or a massifier, the knowledge of classifiers is crucial to analysing the syntactic environments that eventually give rise to a certain interpretation of Mandarin ...between mass and ...
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The lexical pragmatics of count-mass polysemy
... between count and mass uses of nouns may give rise ...between count and mass NPs clearly has some important interpretive consequences, these seem to be less specific than rule-based ...
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Detecting Article Errors Based on the Mass Count Distinction
... the mass count distinction. Although the mass count distinction is particularly impor- tant in detecting these errors, it has been pointed out that it is hard to make heuristic rules for ...
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