Nouns, Mass and Count
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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A Statistical Investigation into the Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Mass and Count Nouns: Morphosyntactic and Semantic Perspectives
... onto mass/count syntax (seem ...are mass nouns which denote sets of atomic entities, such as furniture and kitchenware, and some of these have synonyms in the count domain as in the ...
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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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An Attempt To Studying Of Contrastive And Error Analyses In The Use Of Articles In English And French
... AND COUNT NOUNS DEFINITE SPECIFIC REFERENCE: DEFINITE ARTICLE in English and French The total percentage of correct answers although higher than that of wrong responses is still below the rate established ...
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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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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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A sense based lexicon of count and mass expressions: The Bochum English Countability Lexicon
... Although this interpretation is mostly referred to as appear- ing with distinct measure phrases, unit-readings, as seen in (8), do not seem to require one. Since this phenomenon is widely discussed in a number of ...
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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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Measure words and classifiers
... (1997) mass nouns are kind-denoting expressions, whereas classifiers and measure words are inserted to make the kind-denoting noun compatible with a ...all nouns are kind-denoting, resulting in the ...
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Systematic Polysemy in Gĩkũyũ
... are, count nouns whereas in 4b and d, mũtĩ ‘’ and ngũrwe refer to the wood and the meat respectively which are the substances derived from the objects already referred to ...
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The Mass-Count Distinction: Acquisition and Disambiguation
... It is interesting to note that in German many of these rules also have overt counterparts that are retrievable in a corpus. These are the count constructions, which are a subspecies of the quantifying noun groups ...
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A Feedback Augmented Method for Detecting Errors in the Writing of Learners of English
... distinguishing mass and count nouns which are particularly important in detecting these errors (Kawai et ...a mass noun or a count noun greatly depends on its meaning or its surrounding ...
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Can You See the (Linguistic) Difference? Exploring Mass/Count Distinction in Vision
... opposing mass/count class. Interestingly, count nouns which are la- beled as ‘stuff’ in the things ...like mass in our ...from mass-substance all the way to count ...of ...
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Noun Countability; Count Nouns and Non-count Nouns, What are the Syntactic Differences Between them?
... Proper Nouns are "nouns that belong to a grammatically distinct class of nouns which characteristically function as the head of NPs, serving as proper names" (Huddleston 1988, ...of ...
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Elderly women who received <em>Helicobacter pylori</em>-eradicating therapy have reduced risk of low skeletal muscle mass
... All subjects completed a standardized, self-validated ques- tionnaire during the routine health screening program. The questionnaire asked about smoking, alcohol consumption, exercise, and medical history of prior ...
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Compound Noun Segmentation Based on Lexical Data Extracted from Corpus
... The simple noun dictionary is based on very frequently occurring nouns which are called distinct nouns because they are clues for identifying constituents of compound nouns.. Second, the[r] ...
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Approaches to Zero Adnominal Recognition
... of nouns studied theoretically in the ...relational nouns like mae ‘front’, naka ‘inside’, and migi ‘right’ as “incomplete nouns” that require elements to complete their meanings; these are a subset ...
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The Interpretation of Relational Nouns
... [1] [10] In this approach, interpreting a natural language sentence is a multi-stage process, which starts out with a high-level meaning representation which reflects the semantic struct[r] ...
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Resolving Shell Nouns
... Third, at the conceptual level, once we know which semantic argument represents shell content, resolving examples such as (4) seems straightfor- ward using syntactic structure, i.e., by extracting the complement clause. ...
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What's in a name? A survey of Roman onomastic practice from c. 700 BC to AD 700
... Many are nouns of obscure slang vocabulary with the -a and -o terminations or are pejorative nouns with the -io ending, while others are straightforward adjectives or [r] ...
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