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By Susan Rothstein

ISBN-10: 1107001277

ISBN-13: 9781107001275

using numerals in counting differs rather dramatically throughout languages. a few languages grammaticalise a distinction among count number nouns (three cats; 3 books) vs 'non-count' or mass nouns (milk, mud), marking this contrast in several methods. Others use a procedure of numeral classifiers, whereas but others use a mix of either. This booklet attracts consciousness to the distinction among counting and measuring, and indicates that it truly is important to our figuring out of the way we use numerical expressions, classifiers and count number nouns in numerous languages. It experiences many of the more moderen significant linguistic leads to the semantics of numericals, counting and measuring and theories of the mass/count contrast, and provides the author's new study at the subject. The booklet attracts seriously on crosslinguistic learn, and offers in-depth case stories of the mass/count contrast and counting and measuring in a few typologically unrelated languages. it is also chapters on classifiers, buildings and on adjectival makes use of of degree phrases.

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