Brendan Gillon
List of John Benjamins publications for which Brendan Gillon plays a role.
Articles
Re-examining the mass-count distinction Mass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science, Moltmann, Friederike (ed.), pp. 13–36 | Chapter
2020 This paper argues that the mass-count distinction does not represent a fundamental division between the world's languages. We demonstrate that such a distinction, as commonly defined within the linguistic literature, often conflates two facts: the semantic fact, found in all languages, that some… read more
2009
Lexical access of mass and count nouns: How word recognition reaction times correlate with lexical and morpho-syntactic processing The Mental Lexicon 4:3, pp. 354–379 | Article
2009 Two psycholinguistic experiments were carried out in Italian to test the role played by the feature that distinguishes mass nouns from count nouns, as well as by the feature that distinguishes singular nouns from plural nouns. The first experiment, a simple lexical decision task, revealed a… read more