Things and Stuff - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Figures

pp ix-x

Tables

pp xi-xi

Contributors and their Affiliations

pp xii-xiv

Preface

pp xv-xvi

1 - Editorial Introduction: Background to the Count–Mass Distinction

pp 1-18

Large-Scale Architectures for Count and Mass

pp 19-148

2 - Mass vs. Count: Where Do We Stand? Outline of a Theory of Semantic Variation

pp 21-54

3 - Counting, Plurality, and Portions

pp 55-80

4 - Count–Mass Asymmetries: The Importance of Being Count

pp 81-114

5 - Divide and Counter

pp 115-148

Implications from Individual Languages

pp 149-234

6 - Mass-to-Count Shifts in the Galilee Dialect of Palestinian Arabic

pp 151-166

7 - Object Mass Nouns as an Arbiter for the Count–Mass Category

pp 167-192

8 - Bare Nouns and the Count–Mass Distinction: A Pilot Study Across Languages

pp 193-212

9 - Counting (on) Bare Nouns: Revelations from American Sign Language

pp 213-234

Compositional Analyses and Theoretical Issues

pp 235-318

10 - Ontology, Number Agreement, and the Count–Mass Distinction

pp 237-260

11 - The Semantics of Distributed Number

pp 261-278

12 - Container, Portion, and Measure Interpretations of Pseudo-Partitive Constructions

pp 279-304

13 - Overlap and Countability in Exoskeletal Syntax: A Best-of-Both-Worlds Approach to the Count–Mass Distinction

pp 305-318

New Empirical Approaches to the Semantics of the Count–Mass Distinction

pp 319-397

14 - The Role of Context and Cognition in Countability: A Psycholinguistic Account of Lexical Distributions

pp 321-336

15 - Plurality Without (Full) Countability: On Mass-Like Categories in Lexical Plurals

pp 337-356

16 - Determining Countability Classes

pp 357-376

17 - Polysemy and the Count–Mass Distinction: What Can We Derive from a Lexicon of Count and Mass Senses?

pp 377-397