Mass Terms

Philosophy Compass 7 (10):712-730 (2012)
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English common nouns, like nouns in many other languages, can be distinguished into count nouns and mass nouns. This article sets out the basic morpho‐syntactic and semantic facts pertaining to these two classes of English nouns. In addition, it summarizes and critically discusses the various theories of the semantics of such nouns

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10.1111/j.1747-9991.2012.00514.x

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