Title Things and stuff : the semantics of the count-mass distinction / edited by Tibor Kiss, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Halima Husić

Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors and their Affiliations -- Preface -- 1 Editorial Introduction: Background to the Count-Mass Distinction -- 1. The Beginnings of the CMD -- 2. Distinguishing Features of the CMD -- 3. The Articles in this Volume -- 3.1. Invited Papers -- 3.2. Implications from Individual Languages -- 3.3. Compositional Analyses and Theoretical Issues -- 3.4. New Empirical Approaches to the Semantics of the CMD -- Large-Scale Architectures for Count and Mass -- 2 Mass vs. Count: Where Do We Stand? Outline of a Theory of Semantic Variation -- 1. Plan -- 2. A Base-Line Framework -- 2.1. Atomic vs. Non-Atomic Properties -- 2.2. Ambiguous Concepts and Reconceptualization -- 2.3. Quantized Properties vs. Sum-Closed Ones -- Count Kinds vs. Mass Kinds -- 3. What Varies and What Doesn't -- 3.1. Classifier Languages -- 3.2. Basic Indo-European: English and Other Type I Languages -- 3.2.1. Count NPs in IE -- 3.2.2. Mass Nouns in IE -- 3.3. Languages with Generalized Numerals: Type III -- 3.3.1. Quantity -- 3.3.2. Yudja -- 3.3.3. Nez Perce -- 4. Summary and Concluding Remarks -- 3 Counting, Plurality, and Portions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Count-Mass Distinction -- 3. Plurality -- 4. Pluralization of Mass Nouns in a Count-Mass Language -- 4.1. Plural Mass Nouns which Shift to Count -- 4.2. Plural Mass Nouns which Clearly Haven't Shifted to Count -- 5. A Semantics for Plurals and Count-Mass -- 6. Cross-linguistic Variation in the Relation between Plurality and Countability -- 6.1. Variation -- 6.2. Languages Where Pluralizable Nouns Are a Subset of Count Nouns -- 6.3. Languages in Which Plurality Entails Discreteness (Portion Readings) but not Countability -- 7. Discussion and Conclusions 4 Count-Mass Asymmetries: The Importance of Being Count -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background: What Do Linguists Mean by Count and Mass? -- 3. Count-Mass Asymmetries -- 3.1. Grammatical Markers -- 3.2. Quantity Expressions -- 3.3. Anti-Count Quantity Expressions and Blocking -- 3.4. Quantity Expressions Across Languages -- 3.5. Count and Mass Meanings and Count and Mass Languages -- 3.6. To Sum Up: Countability Matters -- 4. Natural Atomicity and Natural Countability: Count Meanings Across Languages -- 4.1. The Linguistic Representation of Aggregates: Furniture -- 4.2. Measure Words -- 4.3. Atomicity and Count Meaning: Fences and Bouquets -- 4.4. Flexible Nouns and Shifts -- 5. Conclusions -- 5 Divide and Counter -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Theoretical Assumptions -- 1.2. Challenging the Analysis -- 1.3. An Outline -- 2. Arabic Nouns -- Gender and Number Marking -- 2.1. The Morpheme -ah and Gender Marking -- 2.2. Arabic Plurals -- Background Notes -- 3. Plural Marking and -ah-Divided Nominals -- 3.1. One Stem, Two Plural Forms, Two Readings -- 3.2. SF and Gender -- 4. PL-ah-Ns vs. Other Plural Forms -- 4.1. Bare Plurals -- 4.2. Plurals and Pre-Nominal Quantifiers -- 4.3. Where Are PL-ah-Ns Licit? -- 5. Cardinals Are Not Quantifiers: Towards a Structure -- 5.1. Distributivity Effects of Cardinals and Quantifiers -- 5.2. Cardinals and Quantifiers: Adjectives and Scope -- 5.3. Null Pronominals with Cardinals and Quantifiers -- 6. Cardinal Agreement -- 6.1. Cardinals and Quantifiers: A Proposal -- 6.2. Dividing vs. Agreeing Plural Marking -- 6.3. Inclusive vs. Exclusive Plural Marking? -- 7. Conclusion -- Implications from Individual Languages -- 6 Mass-to-Count Shifts in the Galilee Dialect of Palestinian Arabic -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gender and Number in PA -- 2.1. Gender -- 2.2. Number -- 2.2.1. Sound Plural -- 2.3. Broken Plural 3. The Count-Mass Distinction -- 4. Mass-to-Count Shift -- 4.1. Constraints on the Input Noun -- 4.2. Constraints on the Output Noun -- 4.2.1. Chunks -- 4.2.2. Idiosyncratic Interpretations -- 4.2.3. Granular Substances -- 4.2.4. senf nouns -- 5. Discussion -- 7 Object Mass Nouns as an Arbiter for the Count-Mass Category -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1. Languages Without Object Mass Nouns -- 2.2. Individuation Without Classifiers: Inagaki and Barner (2009) -- 2.3. Arguments for Nominal Individuation: Doetjes (2012) -- 2.4. Count-Mass Characteristics in Japanese: Sudo 2016 -- to appear -- 3. Testing for Object Mass Nouns -- 3.1. Results -- 3.2. Discussion -- 4. Analysis -- 5. Conclusions -- 8 Bare Nouns and the Count-Mass Distinction: A Pilot Study Across Languages -- 1. Overview -- 2. Nominal Systems Across Languages -- 2.1. English (Eng) -- 2.2. Rioplatense Spanish (RSpan) -- 2.3. Cape-Verdean (CV) -- 2.4. Brazilian Portuguese (BrP) -- 3. A Cross-linguistic Experiment -- 3.1. Task 1: The Acceptability of Nouns in Comparison -- 3.1.1. Methods and Design -- 3.1.2. Participants -- 3.1.3. Results -- 3.2. Task 2: The Interpretation of Nouns in Comparison -- 3.2.1. Methods and Design -- 3.2.2. Participants -- 3.2.3. Results -- 3.3. Task 3: Quantity Judgment Across Languages -- 3.3.1. Methods and Design -- 3.3.2. Participants -- 3.3.3. Results -- 4. General Discussion: Bare Singulars Across Languages -- 4.1. Bare Singulars in Number Marking Languages -- 4.2. Bare Singulars in Number Neutral Languages -- 4.3. Bare Singulars in Brazilian Portuguese -- 5. Final Remarks -- 9 Counting (on) Bare Nouns: Revelations from American Sign Language -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mass Nouns in ASL: Diagnostic (Take 1) -- 3. ASL is not a Type I Language (Not a Typical/Obligatory Number Marking Language) 4. ASL is not a Type II Language (not a Generalized Classifier Language) -- 5. ASL as a Type III Language (a Number Neutral Language where Quantity Expressions Tell Us Something) -- 6. Conclusions and Directions -- Appendix: Notation and Methodology -- Compositional Analyses and Theoretical Issues -- 10 Ontology, Number Agreement, and the Count-Mass Distinction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Domains and Denotations -- 2.1. Disjoint Domains -- 2.2. Type Theory -- 2.3. Single Domain, Single Type -- 3. Number Marking -- 3.1. Low Number Theories -- 3.2. High Number Theories -- 4. The Argument for ''High Number'' Theories -- 4.1. Competition -- 4.2. Plural Agreement Without a Plural Affix -- 4.3. Disjunction and Agreement -- 5. Conclusion -- 11 The Semantics of Distributed Number -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two Positions for the Plural -- 3. The Analysis -- 4. Conclusion -- 12 Container, Portion, and Measure Interpretations of Pseudo-Partitive Constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Available Readings for Pseudo-Partitive Constructions -- 1.2. Outline -- 1.3. A Note on a Terminological Issue -- 2. Data -- 3. Analysis -- 3.1. Main Observations -- 3.2. Formal Framework -- 3.3. Counting Constructions -- 3.4. The Container+Contents Interpretation of the PPC -- 3.5. The Ad Hoc Measure Interpretation of the PPC -- 3.6. Restrictions on Mass-to-Count Coercion -- 4. Summary -- 13 Overlap and Countability in Exoskeletal Syntax: A Best-of-Both-Worlds Approach to the Count-Mass Distinction -- 1. Towards a Hybrid Theory of the Count-Mass Distinction -- 1.1. Asymmetries in Flexibility -- 1.2. Interpreting the Asymmetries: Towards a Disjointness Semantics . . . -- 1.3. . . . With a Role for Derivational Processes -- 2. 'Exoskeletal Iceberg Semantics' -- 2.1. Back to Our Data -- 3. Conclusions -- New Empirical Approaches to the Semantics of the Count-Mass Distinction 14 The Role of Context and Cognition in Countability: A Psycholinguistic Account of Lexical Distributions -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Formal Linguistics Studies -- 1.2. Experimental Literature -- 2. A Quantitative Approach -- 2.1. Morphological Number: Rating Study -- 2.2. Procedure -- 2.3. Participants -- 2.4. Results -- 3. Corpus study -- 3.1. Procedure -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1. A Context Driven Countability -- 4.2. Between Language and Cognition -- 4.3. Final Remarks: A Multidimensional Approach -- 5. Conclusions -- 15 Plurality Without (Full) Countability: On Mass-Like Categories in Lexical Plurals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical Assumptions and Methodology -- 2.1. General Assumptions -- 2.2. Methodology: Corpus Study and Acceptability Survey -- 3. Quantitative Analysis -- 3.1. Preliminaries: Towards a More Fine-Grained Typology of Mass Nouns -- 3.2. Results: Mass-Like Lexical Plurals Along the [+/- Count] Continuum -- 3.2.1. Quantitative Results -- 3.2.2. Mass-Like Types -- 4. Mass Count Coercion in Mass Plurals -- 5. Discussion and Conclusions: Does Gradual Count Deficiency Reach Mass? -- 16 Determining Countability Classes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background: Countability Preferences (Allan 1980) -- 3. Quantifying Countability Environments -- 3.1. Methodology: Data Processing and Annotation -- 3.2. Assessing Allan (1980) -- 3.3. Decomposing the Allan (1980) Environments -- 4. Assessing the Predictive Strength of Countability Environments -- 5. Clusters of Countability -- 6. Outlook: Implications for the Semantics of Countability -- 17 Polysemy and the Count-Mass Distinction: What Can We Derive from a Lexicon of Count and Mass Senses? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Bochum English Countability Lexicon -- 3. Four types of ambiguity in BECL -- 4. T4 Ambiguities: (Almost the) Same Meaning, Different Countability Summary "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 internationallyrenowned 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"-- Provided by publisher Notes Consists of revised papers, presented at a conference at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, "The Mass-Count Distinction: A Linguistic Misunderstanding?", held in 2018 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Mass nouns -- Congresses Grammar, Comparative and general -- Numerals -- Congresses Grammar, Comparative and general -- Quantifiers -- Congresses Semantics -- Congresses Language and languages -- Philosophy. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Mass nouns Grammar, Comparative and general -- Numerals Grammar, Comparative and general -- Quantifiers Language and languages -- Philosophy Semantics Grammar, Comparative and general -- Mass nouns -- Congresses. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Numerals -- Congresses. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Quantifiers -- Congresses. Semantics -- Congresses. Language and languages -- Philosophy -- Congresses. Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Kiss, Tibor, editor Pelletier, Francis Jeffry, 1944- editor. Husić, Halima, editor LC no. 2020055294 ISBN 9781108937979 1108937977 9781108935111 1108935117

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