Context-dependent Countability in Korean
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The countability of nonhuman nouns is problematic in Korean because they behave like either count or mass nouns depending on structures. To account for the mixed properties of nonhuman nouns, this analysis resorts to the context-dependent domain of Chierchia (2010) and the restriction of Interpretive Economy suggested by Kennedy (2007). It is proposed that nonhuman nouns are lexically mass and behave like count nouns only when sentences involve distributivity or quantification over atoms. The context-dependency of a typeshifting function accounts for different behaviors between nonhuman and mass nouns and graded judgments of native speakers.
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The countability of nonhuman nouns is problematic in Korean because they behave like either count or mass nouns depending on structures. To account for the mixed properties of nonhuman nouns, this analysis resorts to the context-dependent domain of Chierchia (2010) and the restriction of Interpretive Economy suggested by Kennedy (2007). It is proposed that nonhuman nouns are lexically mass and behave like count nouns only when sentences involve distributivity or quantification over atoms. The context-dependency of a typeshifting function accounts for different behaviors between nonhuman and mass nouns and graded judgments of native speakers.
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