Alan Bale
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alan Bale is involved.
Articles
2020 Re-examining the mass-count distinction Mass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science, Moltmann, Friederike (ed.), pp. 13–36 | Chapter
This paper argues that the mass-count distinction does not represent a fundamental division between the world's languages. We demonstrate that such a distinction, as commonly defined within the linguistic literature, often conflates two facts: the semantic fact, found in all languages, that some… read more
2018 Chapter 14. Four-year-old children compute scalar implicatures in absence of epistemic reasoning Semantics in Language Acquisition, Syrett, Kristen and Sudha Arunachalam (eds.), pp. 325–349 | Chapter
Children exhibit sophisticated mental state (epistemic) reasoning abilities from an early age, but it remains unclear what role these abilities play in the development of pragmatic inference in language acquisition. Here, we examined the role of epistemic reasoning in scalar implicature.… read more