34.3687, Books: Things and Stuff: Kiss, Pelletier, Husić (eds.) (2023)

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Date: 24-Nov-2023
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Things and Stuff: Kiss, Pelletier, Husić (eds.) (2023)


Title: Things and Stuff
Subtitle: The Semantics of the Count-Mass Distinction
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/langua
ges-linguistics/semantics-and-pragmatics/things-and-stuff-semantics-co
unt-mass-distinction?format=PB

editor: Tibor Kiss
editor: Francis  Jeffry Pelletier
editor: Halima Husić
Abstract:

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English (eng)



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