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Predicting object mass nouns across languages
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In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 5, No 1 (2020): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 228–241 ; 2473-8689 (2020)
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The hypothesis explored in this paper is that the amount of object mass nouns (e.g., furniture, jewelry) in a given language is related to the amount of morphosyntax that indicates the countability of nouns (e.g., many, much) in that language. This hypothesis, together with the analysis of Sutton & Filip (2016) best captures the occurrence of object mass nouns across languages. The analysis of Sutton & Filip (2016) accurately predicts which class of nouns will have object mass nouns across languages – collective artifacts – and the novel hypothesis provides a means of predicting the amount of object mass nouns in a given language: languages with many morphosyntactic reflexes of the mass/count distinction will likewise have many object mass nouns – e.g. English – and languages with few morphosyntactic reflexes of the mass/count distinction will likewise have few object mass nouns – e.g., Greek, Hungarian, and Japanese.
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count; countability; English; Greek; Hungarian; Japanese; mass; Semantics; Typology
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URL: https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v5i1.4698
http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/PLSA/article/view/4698
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Too little, too late: A longitudinal study of English corrective focus by Mandarin speakers
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In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 5, No 1 (2020): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 270–281 ; 2473-8689 (2020)
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Why is L1 not easy to hear?
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In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 5, No 1 (2020): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 59–73 ; 2473-8689 (2020)
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