The Semantics of Mass-Predicates

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Koslicki, Kathrin

• Introduction: Along with many other languages, English has a relatively straightforward gram- matical distinction between mass-occurrences of nouns and their count- occurrences. To illustrate, consider the distinction between the role of ‘hair’ in (1) and (2): ~1! There is hair in my soup. (2) There is a hair in my soup. In (1), ‘hair’ has a mass-occurrence; in (2), a (singular) count-occurrence.

• Date created

  1999

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Terms
  • Semantics
  • Nouns
  • Pluralization
  • Philosophy Of Language
  • Quantification

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3N29PN14

• License

  © 1999 K. Koslicki et al. This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited.