This volume explores the expression of the concepts count and
mass in human language and probes the complex relation between
seemingly incontrovertible aspects of meaning and their varied
grammatical realizations across languages. In English, count
nouns are those that can be counted and pluralized (two cats),
whereas mass nouns cannot be, at least not without a change in
meaning (two rices). The chapters in this volume explore the
question of the cognitive and linguistic universality and
variability of the concepts count and mass from philosophical,
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