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Informationen zum Autor Diane Massam is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto where she served as Chair of Linguistics from 2002 to 2008. Her research focus is on syntactic theory, in the areas of argument structure, case, predication, and word order, working mainly on Niuean, a Polynesian language. She is the co-editor of Ergativity: Emerging issues (Springer 2006) and has published papers in many journals such as Lingua, Oceanic Linguistics, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, English Language and Linguistics, and Syntax. She has held several research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and was co-editor of Squibs for Linguistic Inquiry (1998-2002), honorary research fellow at the University of Auckland (2001), visiting professor at Harvard University (2006), and an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand (2010). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Jila Ghomeshi and Diane Massam: The Count Mass Distinction: Issues and Perspectives 2: Francis Jeffry Pelletier: Lexical Nouns are Both +MASS and +COUNT, but They are Neither +MASS nor +COUNT 3: Elizabeth Cowper and Daniel Currie Hall: Aspects of Individuation 4: Heike Wiese: Collectives in the Intersection of Mass and Count Nouns: A Cross-Linguistic Account 5: Scott Grimm: Individuation and Inverse Number Marking in Dagaare 6: Ileana Paul: General Number and the Structure of DP 7: Saeed Ghaniabadi: Plural Marking Beyond Count Nouns 8: Solveiga Armoskaite: Aspectual Effects of a Pluractional Suffix: Evidence From Lithuanian 9: Martina Wiltschko: Decomposing the Mass/count Distinction: Evidence from Languages that Lack it 10: Eric Mathieu: On the Mass/count Distinction in Ojibwe 11: Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng: Counting and Classifiers 12: Niina Ning Zhang: Countability and Numeral Classifiers in Mandarin Chinese 13: Alan C. Bale and David Barner: Semantic Triggers, Linguistic Variation, and the Mass-Count Distinction 14: Natalie M. Klein, Greg N. Carlson, Renjie Li, T. Florian Jaeger, and Michael K. Tanenhaus: Classifying and Massifying Incrementally in Chinese Language Comprehension References Index ...
