Ljudmila Geist

List of John Benjamins publications for which Ljudmila Geist plays a role.

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Geist, Ljudmila 2024 The mass/count distinction in nouns for foodstuffs: A contrastive viewLinguistic Constructions, Trawiński, Beata, Marc Kupietz and Kristel Proost (eds.), pp. 297–323 | Article
Languages show variation in the encoding of plurality in the domain of foodstuffs. Some foodstuffs are lexicalized by singular mass nouns (e.g., garlic) and others by plural count nouns (e.g., beans). In the paper it is argued on the basis of German and Russian that there is no difference in… read more