Count Nouns - Mass Nouns, Neat Nouns - Mess Nouns
<p>In this paper I propose and formalize a theory of the mass-count distinction in which the denotations of count nouns are built from non-overlapping generators, while the denotations of mass nouns are built from overlapping generators. Counting is counting of generators, and it will follow t...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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New Prairie Press
2010-12-01
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Series: | The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.4148/biyclc.v6i0.1579 |