The anatomy of an aggregate: on the Russian suffix -ьj-
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 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!
Domaines
Sciences de l'Homme et SociétéOrigine | Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s) |
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