Ljudmila Geist
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ljudmila Geist is involved.
Article
2024 The mass/count distinction in nouns for foodstuffs: A contrastive view Linguistic Constructions, Trawiński, Beata, Marc Kupietz and Kristel Proost (eds.), pp. 297–323 | Article
Languages show variation in the encoding of plurality in the domain of foodstuffs. Some foodstuffs are lexicalized by singular mass nouns (e.g., garlic) and others by plural count nouns (e.g., beans). In the paper it is argued on the basis of German and Russian that there is no difference in… read more