Counting Aggregates, Groups and Kinds: Countability from the Perspective of a Morphologically Complex Language

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DOČEKAL Mojmír GRIMM Scott

Year of publication 2021
Type Chapter of a book
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Faculty of Arts

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Description Theories of countability face the task of explaining how various nouns’ different participation in grammatical number constructions corresponds to meaning contrasts among those nouns. *,1 What, if anything, in a noun’s meaning impinges on its ability to appear in different morphosyntactic con- texts related to counting and/or measuring? Or in the other direction, how do morphosyntactic contexts impinge on the possible interpretations of a noun?
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