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| Title: | Do Mass Nouns Constitute a Semantically Uniform Class? |
| Authors: | Nicolas, David |
| Issue Date: | 2002 |
| Publisher: | University of Kansas. Linguisitcs Graduate Student Association |
| Extent: | 1029405 bytes |
| Type: | Working Paper |
| Series/Report no.: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics;
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics; |
| Abstract: | Research on mass nouns has focused on concrete terms. So, are there semantic properties shared by all mass terms? We first consider concrete nouns like milk and furniture. Contra Cheng (1973), we show that they can be held to refer distributively (i.e. to apply to any part of what they apply to) only if this property is understood with a new part-relation, that of N -part. In addition, they refer cumulatively: when they apply to each of two things, they also apply to the two things considered together. We then turn to abstract mass terms like beauty and love. We find, surprisingly, that they too refer distributively and cumulatively. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/591 |
| ISSN: | 1043-3805
1043-3805 |
| Appears in Collections: | Volume 26 (2002), KWPL
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