Description
Countability in Natural Language is a comprehensive examination of how countable and uncountable nouns function across natural languages. Hana Filip investigates the linguistic mechanisms that allow speakers to distinguish between discrete, countable entities and mass or uncountable substances.
The book addresses key questions about nominal semantics, including how countability relates to ontological categories, grammatical number systems, and lexical organization. Filip analyzes data from diverse languages to reveal both universal principles and language-specific variation in how countability is encoded grammatically and semantically.
This scholarly work bridges theoretical linguistics and cognitive semantics, offering insights into how humans conceptualize and linguistically categorize the world. It serves as an essential resource for linguists, philosophers of language, and cognitive scientists interested in the relationship between language structure and human conceptualization.
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