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Things and Stuff - The Semantics of the Count-Mass Distinction (Hardcover)
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Things and Stuff - The Semantics of the Count-Mass Distinction (Hardcover)
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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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