Mahesh Srinivasan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mahesh Srinivasan plays a role.
Article
2020 Lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic sources of countability: An experimental exploration of the mass-count distinction Mass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science, Moltmann, Friederike (ed.), pp. 159–190 | Chapter
In this chapter, we suggest that the meanings of mass and count nouns result from the interaction of three components of language - lexical roots, syntax, and pragmatic inference. We begin by providing a brief history of early work on the mass-count distinction, and show how the experimental… read more