Quantifying Count/Mass Elasticity
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The semantics of the mass/count distinction has long been a central issue in formal linguistics (Quine, 1960; Link, 1983), with much debate over the nature of these two classes of nouns (Doetjes, 1996; Chierchia, 2010; Rothstein, 2010; Pelletier, 2010). In the vast literature on the mass/count distinction the following criteria, listed by Chierchia (1998), have played a key role in distinguishing mass uses of nouns from count uses:
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