Concepts of objects and substances in language
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- 13 June 2019
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
- Vol. 26 (4) , 1238-1256
Abstract
People distinguish objects from the substances that constitute them. Many languages also distinguish count nouns and mass nouns. What is the relation between these two distinctions? The connection...Keywords
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