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Two Levels of the Mass-Count Distinctions and Noun Classifications in English and Japanese

Section: LINGUISTICS Academic Degree: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Linguistics Series: Academic Staff

Published In Volume 52, Issue 1 (2025) 25.03.2025 Pages: 23-34

10.36078/987655221

Why are items such as furniture, cutlery, and jewellery considered mass nouns, even though we can readily count the number of pieces of furniture, knives and spoons, and jewels? Many English learners ...

mass-count distinction (MCD) conceptual MCD syntactic MCD furniture-type nouns object mass noun +5 more

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Modal Verbs and Negation in English: A Cognitive Perspective

Section: LINGUISTICS Academic Degree: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Philological Sciences Series: Academic Staff

Published In Volume 51, Issue 4 (2024) 25.12.2024 Pages: 24-39

10.36078/987655105

This paper is a preliminary report of my research project to reveal syntactic structures of English sentences from theoretical perspectives: Generative Grammar and Cognitive Grammar. Towards this rese...

modal verbs root modality epistemic modality negation metaphorical extension +4 more

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