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Kwak, Eun-Joo. 2014. Nominal Clssification via Countability and Neatness. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 39-1, 43-66. In spite of its usefulness, the simple dichotomy of count and mass nouns has been challenged because each category of nouns appears to be divided further via semantic properties. I crtically review previous analyses including Chierchia (2010), Rothstein (2010), Landman (2011), and Henderson (2012). Adopting Landman (2011)'s notion of neatness, I propose that count nouns as well as mass nouns are divided by neatness. Based on the revised notion of countability, I suggest that grove-type group nouns are mess count nouns while committee-type group nouns are neat (count or mass) nouns. I also show that the notion of neatness is useful to identify similarities found in committee-type group nouns regardless of their countability and differences between committee-type and grove-type group nouns in spite of the same countability. (Sejong University)

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Abstract
 1. Introduction
 2. An Interpretation Domain for Count and Mass Nouns
  2.1 A Lattice-theoretic Domain with Atoms and Nonatoms
  2.2 Introducing Groups to the Domain
 3. Nominal Classification via Linguistic Evidence
  3.1 Previous Analyses on Subcategories of Nouns
  3.2 Subcategories of Nouns via Linguistic Evidence
 4. Neatness: A New Criterion for Nominal Classification
 5. A Loophole in Landman's Classification of Nouns
  5.1 Problems with the Definition of Countability
  5.2 The Neatness of Group Nouns
  5.3 Nominal Classification via Countability and Neatness
 6. A Concluding Remark
 References

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• Eun-Joo Kwak [ Sejong University ]

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  언어 [Korean Journal of Linguistics]

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  1229-4039

• 수록기간

  1976~2017

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  KCI 등재

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  KDC 710 DDC 195