Names, Light Nouns, and Countability
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چکیده
Making use of Kayne’s (2005, 2010) theory light nouns, this article argues that nouns are part (simple) names and a mass/count distinction among explains the behavior certain types in German as mass rather than count. The elaborates role with new generalizations regarding their linguistic quantificational pronominal NPs, selection relative pronouns German, general difference support plural anaphora between English German.
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عنوان ژورنال: Linguistic Inquiry
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0024-3892', '1530-9150']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00437