The mass-count distinction is a morpho-syntactic distinction among nouns that is generally taken to have semantic content. This content is generally taken to reflect a conceptual, cognitive, or ontological distinction and relates to philosophical and...Lasīt vairāk
The mass-count distinction is a morpho-syntactic distinction among nouns that is generally taken to have semantic content. This content is generally taken to reflect a conceptual, cognitive, or ontological distinction and relates to philosophical and...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Sep-2012, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780191613180)
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. In English, count n...Lasīt vairāk
A generic statement is a type of generalization that is made by asserting that a "e;kind"e; has a certain property. For example we might hear that marshmallows are sweet. Here, we are talking about the "e;kind"e; marshmallow and asser...Lasīt vairāk
A generic statement is a type of generalization that is made by asserting that a "e;kind"e; has a certain property. For example we might hear that marshmallows are sweet. Here, we are talking about the "e;kind"e; marshmallow and asser...Lasīt vairāk
