Things and Stuff: The Semantics of the Mass-Count Distinction

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Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 8 Figures......Page 10 Tables......Page 12 Contributors and their Affiliations......Page 13 Preface......Page 16 1 Editorial Introduction: Background to the Count-Mass Distinction......Page 18 Large-Scale Architectures for Count and Mass......Page 36 2 Mass vs. Count: Where Do We Stand? Outline of a Theory of Semantic Variation (G.Chierchia)......Page 38 3 Counting, Plurality, and Portions (S.Rothstein)......Page 72 4 Count-Mass Asymmetries - The Importance of Being Count (J.Doetjes)......Page 98 5 Divide and Counter (H.Borer & S.Ouwayda)......Page 132 Implications from Individual Languages......Page 166 6. Mass-to-Count Shifts in the Galilee Dialect of Palestinian Arabic (C.Hnout, L.Laks & S.Rothstein)......Page 168 7 Object Mass Nouns as an Arbiter for the Count-Mass Category (.Erbach, P.R.Stutton, H.Filip & K.Byrdeck)......Page 184 8 Bare Nouns and the Count-Mass Distinction: A Pilot Study Across Languages (K.Beviláqua & R.Pires de Oliveira)......Page 210 9 Counting (on) Bare Nouns: Revelations from American Sign Language (H.Koulidobrova)......Page 230 Compositional Analyses and Theoretical Issues......Page 252 10 Ontology, Number Agreement, and the Count-Mass Distinction (A.Bale)......Page 254 11 The Semantics of Distributed Number (M.Dali & E.Mathieu)......Page 278 12 Container, Portion, and Measure Interpretations of Pseudo-Partitive Constructions (P.R.Sutton & H.Filip)......Page 296 13 Overlap and Countability in Exoskeletal Syntax: A Best-of-Both-Worlds Approach to the Count-Mass Distinction (D.de Vries & G.Tsoulas)......Page 322 New Empirical Approaches to the Semantics of the Count-Mass Distinction......Page 336 14 The Role of Context and Cognition in Countability: A Psycholinguistic Account of Lexical Distribution (F.Franzon, G.Arcara & C.Zanini)......Page 338 15 Plurality Without (Full) Countability: On_Mass-Like Categories in Lexical Plurals (P.Lauwers)......Page 354 16 Determining Countability Classes (S.Grimm & A.Wahlang)......Page 374 17 Polysemy and the Count-Mass Distinction: What Can We Derive from a Lexicon of Count and Mass Senses (T.Kiss, F.J.Pelletier & H.Husić)......Page 394 References......Page 415 Language Index......Page 438 Subject Index......Page 440