Buch, Englisch, Band 42, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 506 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 42, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 506 g
Reihe: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
ISBN: 978-0-19-965428-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford
This volume explores the expression of the concepts count and mass in human language and probes the complex relation between seemingly incontrovertible aspects of meaning and their varied grammatical realizations across languages. In English, count nouns are those that can be counted and pluralized (two cats), whereas mass nouns cannot be, at least not without a change in meaning (#two rices). The chapters in this volume explore
the question of the cognitive and linguistic universality and variability of the concepts count and mass from philosophical, semantic, and morpho-syntactic points of view, touching also on issues in acquisition and processing. The volume also significantly contributes to our cross-linguistic knowledge, as it includes chapters with a
focus on Blackfoot, Cantonese, Dagaare, English, Halkomelem, Lithuanian, Malagasy, Mandarin, Ojibwe, and Persian, as well as discussion of several other languages including Armenian, Hungarian, and Korean. The overall consensus of this volume is that while the general concepts of count and mass are available to all humans, forms of grammaticalization involving number, classifiers, and determiners play a key role in their linguistic treatment, and indeed in whether these
concepts are grammatically expressed at all. This variation may be reflect the fact that count/mass is just one possible realization of a deeper and broader concept, itself related to the categories of nominal and verbal aspect.
Zielgruppe
Students and scholars of linguistics, from advanced undergraduate upwards, as well as researchers interested in the philosophy of language.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
Weitere Infos & Material
1: Jila Ghomeshi and Diane Massam: The Count Mass Distinction: Issues and Perspectives
2: Francis Jeffry Pelletier: Lexical Nouns are Both +MASS and +COUNT, but They are Neither +MASS nor +COUNT
3: Elizabeth Cowper and Daniel Currie Hall: Aspects of Individuation
4: Hieke Wiese: Collectives in the Intersection of Mass and Count Nouns: A Cross-Linguistic Account
5: Scott Grimm: Individuation and Inverse Number Marking in Dagaare
6: Ileana Paul: General Number and the Structure of DP
7: Saeed Ghaniabadi: Plural Marking Beyond Count Nouns
8: Solveiga Armoskaite: Aspectual Effetcs of a Pluractional Suffix: Evidence From Lithuanian
9: Martina Wiltschko: Decomposing the Mass/count Distinction: Evidence from languages that lack it
10: Eric Mathieu: On the Mass/count Distinction in Ojibwe
11: Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng: Counting and Classifiers
12: Niina Ning Zhang: Countability and Numeral Classifiers in Mandarin Chinese
13: Alan C. Bale and David Barner: Semantic Triggers, Linguistic Variation, and the Mass-Count Distinction
14: Natalie M. Klein, Greg N. Carlson, Renjie Li, T. Florian Jaeger, and Michael K. Tanenhaus: Classifying and Massifying Incrementally in Chinese Language Comprehension
References
Index