Nouns and countability  

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Allan, Keith

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 56 no. 3 (Sep. 1980), page 541-567.
Fulltext: NOUNS AND COUNTABILITY.pdf (574.87KB)

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The customary disjunctive marking of lexical entries for English nouns as [:t countable] does not match the fact that the majority can be used both countably and uncountably in different NP environments: this binary opposition is characteristic not of the nouns, but of the NP's which they head. Nevertheless, nouns do have count ability preferences; some enter countable environments more readily than others. And not all nouns occur in all kinds of countability environments. A noun's countability preference can be computed by checking its potential for occurrence in a definitive set of countability environments. In the d:alect examined here, weIlformedness conditions on NP must consider eight levels of countability among English nouns-not, as custom has it, only two..

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