Frank Joosten
List of John Benjamins publications for which Frank Joosten plays a role.
Articles
2010 Collective nouns, aggregate nouns, and superordinates: When ‘part of’ and ‘kind of’ meet Lingvisticæ Investigationes 33:1, pp. 25–49 | Article
‘Part of’ and ‘kind of’ relations in the lexicon have been matter of some linguistic research, but strangely enough, they have only rarely been investigated together. Strangely, since ‘part of’ and ‘kind of’ appear to be similar in a number of respects, and since nouns such as furniture or bétail… read more
2003 Accounts of the count–mass distinction: A critical survey Grammaires et Lexiques Comparés: Actes du Colloque, Conenna, Mirella and Éric Laporte (eds.), pp. 159–173 | Article
Summary The issue of what is usually, but also misleadingly called the count–
mass distinction, i.e. the distinction between nouns that can be counted (e.g. a car, two cars, many cars) and nouns that cannot (e.g. *a sand, *two sands, *many sands, sand, much sand), has been addressed and… read more