32.451, Books: Mass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science: Moltmann (ed.)

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Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:25:13
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Mass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science: Moltmann (ed.)

 


Title: Mass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science 
Series Title: Language Faculty and Beyond 16  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/lfab.16 


Editor: Friederike Moltmann

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Abstract:

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 counting. The
mass-count distinction is certainly one of the most interesting and puzzling
topics in syntax and semantics that bears on ontology and cognitive science.
In many ways, the topic remains under-researched, though, across languages and
with respect to particular phenomena within a given language, with respect to
its connection to cognition, and with respect to the way it may be understood
ontologically. This volume aims to contribute to some of the gaps in the
research on the topic, in particular the relation between the syntactic
mass-count distinction and semantic and cognitive distinctions, diagnostics
for mass and count, the distribution and role of numeral classifiers, abstract
mass nouns, and object mass nouns (furniture, police force, clothing).
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Morphology
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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