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In:Mass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science
Edited by Friederike Moltmann
[Language Faculty and Beyond 16] 2020
► pp. 1–12

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Introduction

 | CNRS | University of Paris 1
Published online: 17 December 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lfab.16.01mol
Article outline
  • 1.The syntactic mass-count distinction
  • 2.Approaches to the semantic mass-count distinction
  • 3.Numeral classifiers
  • 4.Contributions in this volume
  • Acknowledgment
  • Notes
  • References
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