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Counting Aggregates, Groups and Kinds: Countability from the Perspective of a Morphologically Complex Language

DOČEKAL, Mojmír and Scott GRIMM

Basic information

Original name

Counting Aggregates, Groups and Kinds: Countability from the Perspective of a Morphologically Complex Language

Authors

DOČEKAL, Mojmír (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Scott GRIMM (840 United States of America)

Edition

Cambridge, Countability in Natural Language, p. 85-121, 37 pp. Semantics and pragmatics, 1, 2021

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/21:00119266

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-1-107-17866-3

UT WoS

001053626800005

Keywords in English

count nouns; mass nouns

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 27/6/2024 10:58, Mgr. Michal Petr

Abstract

V originále

Theories of countability face the task of explaining how various nouns’ different participation in grammatical number constructions corresponds to meaning contrasts among those nouns. *,1 What, if anything, in a noun’s meaning impinges on its ability to appear in different morphosyntactic con- texts related to counting and/or measuring? Or in the other direction, how do morphosyntactic contexts impinge on the possible interpretations of a noun?

Links

GA17-16111S, research and development project
Name: Formální přístupy ke gramatickému číslu ve slovanských jazycích
Investor: Czech Science Foundation