Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2024

The anatomy of an aggregate: on the Russian suffix -ьj-

Ora Matushansky

Résumé

Mass nouns are often assumed to not have any minimal parts, but this is not true, especially for neat mass nouns, which seem to have the same structure as plurals (Chierchia 1998, see also Gillon 1992 and Rothstein 2004)

Mass nouns and counting

Mass nouns cannot combine with cardinals:

(8) a. ?? seven bloods b. five beers (= packages of beer) package reading c. three wines (= sorts of wines)

sub-kind reading

Reason: either they have no atoms at all (Link 1983, Landman 1989, 1991) or their only nonvague atom is the entire kind (Chierchia 1998)

But neat mass nouns have minimal parts!

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Ora Matushansky. The anatomy of an aggregate: on the Russian suffix -ьj-. Mayfest in Honor of Masha Polinsky, University of Maryland, May 2024, College Park (MD), United States. ⟨hal-04874387⟩
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