TY - BOOK AU - Massam,Diane ED - Workshop on Count and Mass Nouns TI - Count and mass across languages T2 - Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics SN - 9780191746048 (ebook) : AV - P271 U1 - 415.54 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Mass nouns KW - Congresses KW - Noun N1 - Revised conference papers; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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. 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654277.001.0001 ER -