Mass and count in linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science /

"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 c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Moltmann, Friederike (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
Colección:Language faculty and beyond ; v. 16.
Temas:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Mass nouns.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Numerals.
Semantics.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Semantics
Noms comptables.
Numéraux.
Sémantique.
Langage et langues > Philosophie.
semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Mass nouns
Grammar, Comparative and general > Numerals
Language and languages > Philosophy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Mass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. The syntactic mass-count distinction
  • 2. Approaches to the semantic mass-count distinction
  • 3. Numeral classifiers
  • 4. Contributions in this volume
  • References
  • Re-examining the mass-count distinction
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Prototypical mass-count and classifier languages
  • 2.1 English: A mass-count language
  • 2.2 Mandarin: A classifier language
  • 3. Moving away from the prototypes
  • 3.1 Western Armenian
  • 3.2 Ch'ol and Mi'gmaq
  • 3.3 The case against parameters
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
  • Activewear and other vaguery
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The mass-count distinction
  • basic concepts
  • 3. Aggregate-mass
  • basic properties and distribution
  • 4. Aggregate-mass nouns: Internal membership criteria
  • 5. Morphological aspects
  • 5.1 English derivational patterns
  • 5.2 French derivational patterns
  • 5.3 Hebrew derivational patterns
  • 6. Discussion
  • Anchor 225
  • Acknowledgements
  • References

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