Brendan Gillon

List of John Benjamins publications for which Brendan Gillon plays a role.

Articles

Bale, Alan and Brendan Gillon 2020  Re-examining the mass-count distinctionMass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science, Moltmann, Friederike (ed.), pp. 13–36 | Chapter
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
Mondini, Sara, Eva Kehayia, Brendan Gillon, Giorgio Arcara and Gonia Jarema 2009 Lexical access of mass and count nouns: How word recognition reaction times correlate with lexical and morpho-syntactic processingThe Mental Lexicon 4:3, pp. 354–379 | Article
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