10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MASS NOUN»
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mass noun in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mass noun and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Grammar: A Student's Guide
In Love is a many-splendoured thing, love is a mass noun, but in The three
greatest loves of my life are Wagner, Wagner and Wagner, love is used as a
count noun, in the plural form and with an article. In She did it without difficulty,
difficulty is ...
2
Cognitive Grammar: A Basic Introduction
In using lake as a count noun, or water as a mass noun, I am not doing anything
inventive or unanticipated. And while many uses depart from these basic
categorizations, they usually follow conventionally established patterns. Though
novel ...
Ronald W. Langacker, 2008
3
Spanish/English Contrasts: A Course in Spanish Linguistics
Egg is a count noun when the egg is bounded by a shell or emptied into a puddle
, but smeared or scrambled it becomes a mass noun, as in You've got egg (*an
egg) on your chin. Rock and stone are mass as a material, count as a chunk that
...
Melvin Stanley Whitley, 2002
4
Functional English Grammar: An Introduction for Second ...
2 rubbish (*rubbishes) a book, books advice (*advices) an idea, ideas electricity (
*electricities) an inch, inches bravery (""braveries) a month, months Like any
other grammatical distinction, the distinction between mass noun and count noun
is ...
5
A University Course in English Grammar
... 3) similar use of a singular count noun with a mass quantifier; 4) unusual
pluralisation of the mass noun weather, 5) acceptable though not frequent
individuation of a mass noun (treason) with the meaning of 'a kind/type of; 6)
pluralisation of ...
Angela Downing, Philip Locke, 2002
6
Oxford Dictionary of English
dysphasia /dIs'feIZIo/ D noun [mass noun] Psychiatry lan— guage disorder
marked by deficiency in the genera— tion of speech, and sometimes also in its
comprehen— sion, due to brain disease or damage. — DERIVATIVES dysphasic
...
7
Activate Your English Pre-intermediate Teacher's Book: A ...
The answer should contain a measurement or a number + a fixed measuring unit,
e.g. 'a litre' or '2 bottles/2 cartons'. ln order to make a mass noun countable, you
need to add a fixed measuring unit, e.g. 'a loaf of bread', 'a piece of cake'.
8
Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems: Some Philosophical ...
Strictly speaking, it is occurrences of words, or something of the sort, which count
as mass nouns, for the same word can occur both as a mass noun and as a count
noun. For example, 'chicken' is a mass noun in T had some chicken for dinner' ...
9
A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought:A Philosophical ...
tMy mass-noun hypothesis has been widely misinterpreted, partly, I suppose,
because I called it the mass-noun hypothesis. It was not a syntactic claim that
Chinese nouns have mass-noun grammar. I in fact argued (1983), as I do below,
that ...
10
Semantics : A Reader: A Reader
And similarly, the same phonological shape can be associated with both a mass
noun and a count noun: (4) a. How many chickens are in the yard? b. How much
chicken should be served to each guest? In some cases, the dual occurrence is ...
Steven Davis Professor of Philosophy and and Director of the Centre on Values andf Ethics Carleton University, Brendan S. Gillon Associate Professor of Linguistics McGill University, 2004
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MASS NOUN»
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mass noun is used in the context of the following news items.
Literary discourse: When analyst becomes anarchist…
You may consult page 181 of the same dictionary to understand that "blood" is both a mass noun and a count noun. When it is a mass noun, ... «GhanaWeb, Jun 15»
Ask The Old Editor: each other's
... say that we use the plural when we're dealing with count nouns (hands) and the singular when we are dealing with a mass noun (existence). «Baltimore Sun, Jun 15»
Panos Athanasopoulos
... the count/mass noun distinction and the construal of individuation, in populations such as monolingual, bilingual, and multilingual adults, ... «The Conversation UK, Apr 15»
Word Watch: When To Use Money Vs. Monies
"Monies" is indeed an odd term because "money" is a mass noun, like "snow," "behavior" and "mud," and usually these mass nouns are used in ... «Hartford Courant, Apr 15»
The Gathering Storm
The Oxford English Dictionary agrees, defining community as a mass noun describing “the condition of sharing or having certain attitudes and ... «TenEighty, Mar 15»
Politics, policy, and the nuances between
Also as a mass noun: method of acting on matters of principle, settled practice. (Now the usual sense.)” Politics can refer, rather grandly, to the ... «Christian Science Monitor, Mar 15»
No more putting on jam as Orstralia gets respect in Oxford …
the site also features an art gallery and an indigenous keeping place. khanacross /ˈkɑːnəkrɒs/ ▷noun [mass noun] Austral. a motor sport ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Mar 15»
Gordon Waddell: If you're looking for perspective then stay away …
PERSPECTIVE (mass noun): True understanding of the relative importance of things; a sense of proportion. And a word you may as well ... «Scottish Daily Record, Feb 15»
GHOST: Most Linux servers have a horrible, horrible vulnerability (in …
Jeremy Kirk misuses a mass noun: A fault in a widely used component of most Linux distributions could allow an attacker to take remote control ... «Computerworld, Jan 15»
Are 'grammar Nazis' ruining the English language? (II)
Data can be a mass noun (“much of the data is”), or a count noun (“many of the data are”), he says, but that sentence has been caught between ... «Daily Trust, Jan 15»
