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The Structural Design of Language

By Thomas S. Stroik, Michael T. Putnam

In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the narrow syntax – the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational system – must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within the performance systems.

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Query Subject:	Overt Markers on Mass Nouns
Author:	Michael Barrie
Submitter Email:	click here to access email

Linguistic LingField(s):	Morphology Typology

Query:	I am interested if anyone know of a language in which there is an overt marker for mass nouns (or in turn, an overt marker on count nouns, either singular or plural, which is absent on mass nouns). In other words, I'm wondering if any language systematically encodes the mass/count distinction morphologically. I will post a summary of all replies. Thank-you.
LL Issue:	19.1421
Date posted:	27-Apr-2008
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