Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Re-examining the mass-count distinction 13
5. Activewear and other vaguery 37
6. A comparison of abstract and concrete mass nouns in terms of their interaction with quantificational determiners 61
7. Can mass-count syntax be derived from semantics? 83
8. Countability and grammatical number 103
9. Comparatives in Brazilian Portuguese 141
10. Lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic sources of countability 159
11. Countability shifts and abstract nouns 191
12. Name Index 225
13. Subject Index 227