Semantics for Counting and Measuring

Semantics for Counting and Measuring

by Susan Deborah Rothstein
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The use of numerals in counting differs quite dramatically across languages.

Some languages grammaticalise a contrast between count nouns (three cats, three books) vs 'non-count' or mass nouns (milk, mud), marking this distinction in different ways.

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First published
2019
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Subjects
Semantics·Grammar·Comparative and general·English language·Semantics

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