Mass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science

Bibliographic Data

ID5782269
EditorsFriederike Moltmann (0000-0003-3269-8186, CNRS, corresponding author)
Year2020
Pages230
Publication date2020-06-29
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/lfab.16
OpenAlexW3129005207
ISBN9789027208002
Open LibraryOL30190207M
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited11

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

Cognitive semantics · Numeral system · Proper noun · Language and cultural evolution · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Comparative and general Grammar · Grammar, comparative and general, syntax · Language and languages · Mass nouns · Numerals · Philosophy · Semantics

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