{"product_id":"count-and-mass-across-languages-9780199654284","title":"Count and Mass Across Languages","description":"This volume explores the expression of the concepts \u003cem\u003ecount\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003emass\u003c\/em\u003e in human language and probes the complex relation between seemingly incontrovertible aspects of meaning and their varied grammatical realizations across languages. In English, count nouns are those that can be counted and\u003cbr\u003epluralized (\u003cem\u003etwo\u003c\/em\u003e cats), whereas mass nouns cannot be, at least not without a change in meaning (#two \u003cem\u003erices\u003c\/em\u003e). The chapters in this volume explore the question of the cognitive and linguistic universality and variability of the concepts \u003cem\u003ecount\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003emass\u003c\/em\u003e from philosophical, semantic, and morpho-syntactic\u003cbr\u003epoints of view, touching also on issues in acquisition and processing. The volume also significantly contributes to our cross-linguistic knowledge, as it includes chapters with a focus on Blackfoot, Cantonese, Dagaare, English, Halkomelem, Lithuanian, Malagasy, Mandarin, Ojibwe, and Persian, as well\u003cbr\u003eas discussion of several other languages including Armenian, Hungarian, and Korean. The overall consensus of this volume is that while the general concepts of \u003cem\u003ecount\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003emass\u003c\/em\u003e are available to all humans, forms of grammaticalization involving number, classifiers, and determiners play a key role in\u003cbr\u003etheir linguistic treatment, and indeed in whether these concepts are grammatically expressed at all. This variation may be reflect the fact that \u003cem\u003ecount\/mass\u003c\/em\u003e is just one possible realization of a deeper and broader concept, itself related to the categories of nominal and verbal aspect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Diane Massam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/12\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199654284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiane 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 \u003cem\u003eErgativity: Emerging issues\u003c\/em\u003e (Springer 2006) and has published papers in many journals such as \u003cem\u003eLingua, Oceanic Linguistics, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, English Language and Linguistics\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSyntax\u003c\/em\u003e. She has held several research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and was co-editor of \u003cem\u003eSquibs\u003c\/em\u003e for \u003cem\u003eLinguistic Inquiry\u003c\/em\u003e (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 Zealnd (2010).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39934238851187,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":71.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_de1bf4fe-675c-49cb-915d-8a880fa341bf.jpg?v=1647878494","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/count-and-mass-across-languages-9780199654284","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}