LINGUIST List 11.2654

Thu Dec 7 2000

Sum: Mass Nouns v. Count Nouns

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marielinguistlist.org>

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1. Julio Viejo, Mass Nouns vs. Count nouns

Here is the summary of responses I have received to my query on mass and
count nouns in different languages of world (LinguistList 11.2465). 
They have sent me data on these languages or linguistic families:
	
Danish (specially Jutland dialects)
Bijogo (Western Africa)
Bantu languages of Africa in general
Welsh
Arabic
Berber
Chinese
Uzbek
Thai
Dutch
Russian and slavic languages

Also is known this grammatical distinction in Asturian, Italian dialects,
dialectal Spanish, English or Wintun, and as I said in my first mail, and others
(I suppose)

Bibliography received:

-Behrens, Leila. 1995."Categorizing between lexicon and grammar: The
mass/count distinction in a cross-linguistic perspective." Lexicology 1:
1-112.
-Corbett, Greville G. "Number", Cambridge University Press, 
-Tai, James, and Liangqing Wang. 1990. A Semantic Study of the
Classifier tiao. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association
25,1:35-56.
-Beckwith, Christopher I. 1998. Noun Specification and Classification in
Uzbek. Anthropological Linguistics, Vol. 40 no. 1, 1998, 124-140.
-Beckwith, Christopher I. 1998. Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Noun
Categorization, with Special Attention to Thai. U. Warotamasikkhadit, ed.
Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian
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-Bunt, Harry (1985), Mass Terms and Model-Theoretic Semantics. Cambridge:
CUP.
-David, Jean & Georges Kleiber (1989). Termes massifs et termes
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Facult� des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Metz, Centre d'Analyse
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Klincksieck.
-Gordon, Peter (1985). "Evaluating the semantic categories hypothesis: the
case of the count/mass distinction". In: Cognition 20, 209-242. 
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problems. (Synthese Language Library 6). Dordrecht: D. Reidel.
-Schaefer, Melanie, "Synchrony and diachrony of the count/noncount
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(unpublished)
-Filip, Hana. 1994. Aspect and the semantics of noun phrases. En: Vet, Co &
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(I couldn't still read two files on dutch gender kindly sent by their
author, William Fletcher. Surely, they are also very interesting on this
subject)

Thanks to: Vanessa Scherr, Martin Haspelmath, Henrik Jorgensen, Guillaume &
Raphaelle Segerer, Greville Corbett, Elizabeth J. Pyatt, M.L. Souag,
Joaquim Brandao de Carvalho, Chris Beckwith, William H. Fletcher, Adrian
Clynes, Frank Joosten, Edgard Schneider, Sonia Maruenda & Inga Dolinina.