Mass nouns, Count nouns and Non-count nouns

In Alex Barber (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier (2005)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

I present a high-level account of the semantical distinction between count nouns and non-count nouns. The basic idea is that count nouns are semantically either singular or plural and non-count nouns are neither

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

Links

PhilArchive

External links

  • This entry has no external links. Add one.
Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Variables, generality and existence: Considerations on the notion of a concept-script.Professor Henry Laycock - manuscript
Stubborn distributivity, multiparticipant nouns and the count/mass distinction.Roger Schwarzschild - unknown
Variables, generality and existence.Henry Laycock - 2006 - In Paulo Valore (ed.), Topics on General and Formal Ontology. Polimetrica. pp. 27.
Count Nouns and Mass Nouns.H. W. Noonan - 1978 - Analysis 38 (4):167-172.
Mass nouns, vagueness and semantic variation.Gennaro Chierchia - 2010 - Synthese 174 (1):99 - 149.
Remarks on the Syntax and Semantics of Day Designators.Jeffrey C. King - 2001 - Noûs 35 (s15):291 - 333.
Count nouns, mass nouns and their acquisition (1997).David Nicolas - manuscript
Is there anything characteristic about the meaning of a count noun?David Nicolas - 2002 - Revue de la Lexicologie 18.

Analytics

Added to PP
2009-04-07

Downloads
935 (#14,930)

6 months
138 (#26,365)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Henry Laycock
Queen's University

Citations of this work

Purpose-Relativity and Ontology.Nurbay Irmak - 2014 - Dissertation, University of Miami

Add more citations

References found in this work

Theories of masses and problems of constitution.Dean W. Zimmerman - 1995 - Philosophical Review 104 (1):53-110.
A more general theory of definite descriptions.Richard Sharvy - 1980 - Philosophical Review 89 (4):607-624.
Parts and boundaries.Ray Jackendoff - 1992 - In Beth Levin & Steven Pinker (eds.), Lexical & Conceptual Semantics. Blackwell. pp. 9-45.
Quantities.Helen Morris Cartwright - 1970 - Philosophical Review 79 (1):25-42.

View all 11 references / Add more references