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Kwak, Eun-Joo. 2013. Context-dependent Countability in Korean. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 38-1, 27-51. The countability of nonhuman nouns is problematic in Korean because they behave like either count or mass nouns depending on structures. To account for the mixed properties of nonhuman nouns, this analysis resorts to the context-dependent domain of Chierchia (2010) and the restriction of Interpretive Economy suggested by Kennedy (2007). It is proposed that nonhuman nouns are lexically mass and behave like count nouns only when sentences involve distributivity or quantification over atoms. The context-dependency of a typeshifting function accounts for different behaviors between nonhuman and mass nouns and graded judgments of native speakers. (Sejong University)
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1. Introduction
2. Mixed Properties of Nonhuman Nouns in Korean
2.1 Distinction between Count and Mass Nouns
2.2 Count and Mass Properties of Nonhuman Nouns in Korean
3. Previous Arguments on Countability in Korean
4. An Interpretation Domain for the Mass/Count Distinction
4.1 A Double Domain Approach: Link (1983)
4.2 A Single Domain Approach: Chierchia (2010)
5. Countability and Typeshifted Interpretations in Korean
5.1 Shifting Count to Mass
5.2 Shifting Mass to Count
6. A Concluding Remark
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