On Mass Denotations of Bare Nouns in Japanese and Korean

Nemoto, Naoko

doi:10.1515/ling.2005.43.2.383

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“…54–55) argued that all animate plural NPs can have generic reference. Both Nemoto (2005) and Kim (2005) agreed that the Korean marker tul differs from the Japanese plural marker tati in that tul but not tati is compatible with generic interpretation, at least for human or animate NPs. The judgments of our Korean informants are in accordance with Kim rather than Nemoto, in that they find nonhuman animate plural NPs to be fully compatible with generic readings, as in (3b).…”

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“…In Korean, the standard way to express generic reference is with bare NPs: no plural marking as well as no determiner, as shown in (3a). There is some debate as to whether articleless NPs bearing the plural marker tul can also have generic reference; according to Nemoto (2005, pp. 393–395), only human plural NPs in Korean can have generic reference, whereas Kim (2005, pp.…”

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The Role of L1 Transfer in the Interpretation of Articles with Definite Plurals in L2 English

2010

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This study examines second language (L2) acquisition of the interpretation of plural noun phrases. Languages with articles differ in whether they use bare plurals (English) or definite plurals (Spanish) to express generic interpretation (Chierchia, 1998;Dayal, 2004; among others). It is hypothesized that Spanish-speaking learners of English transfer the interpretation of definite plurals from their native language. Results of a truth-value judgment task provide support for this hypothesis: Spanish speakers (N = 24) overaccepted the generic interpretation of English definite plurals to a greater extent than proficiency-matched speakers of Korean (N = 29), an articleless language. Results of a follow-up study further show that with advanced proficiency and increased immersion in the target language, Spanish-speaking learners of English (N = 11) were as targetlike as Korean-speaking learners of English (N = 9) on the interpretation of definite plurals, which suggests that recovery from first language transfer is possible. Implications of these findings for theories of L2 acquisition are discussed. portions of this work were presented, for their comments and suggestions. We are also grateful to several anonymous Language Learning reviewers for their comments. IntroductionThe role of the first language (L1) in the acquisition of the second language (L2) has been much debated and discussed in the field of second language acquisition (SLA). Most L2 researchers today agree that at least some aspects of SLA are influenced by the learners' native language, a process known as L1

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The Role of L1 Transfer in the Interpretation of Articles with Definite Plurals in L2 English

2010

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“…4.4 JAPANESE. Given that counting occurs with classifiers in Japanese, it is generally assumed that Japanese has no grammaticized lexical mass/count distinction, rather, all nouns in such languages are of the same semantic type (Chierchia 1998;Cheng & Sybesma 1998;Muromatsu 2003;Nemoto 2005;Li 2011;Rothstein 2017). At the same time, however, Sudo (2015) shows that Japanese has at least five morphosyntactic environments to distinguish countable nouns from non-countable nouns: numerical determiners and four count determiners.…”

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Predicting object mass nouns across languages

Erbach

2020

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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The hypothesis explored in this paper is that the amount of object mass nouns (e.g. furniture, jewelry) in a given language is related to the amount of morphosyntax that indicates the countability nouns (e.g. many, much) in that language. This hypothesis, together with the analysis of Sutton & Filip (2016) best captures the occurrence of object mass nouns across languages. The analysis of Sutton & Filip (2016) accurately predicts which class of nouns will have object mass nouns across languages-collective artifacts-and the novel hypothesis provides a means of predicting the amount of object mass nouns in a given language: languages with many morphosyntactic reflexes of the mass/count distinction will likewise have many object mass nouns-e.g. English-and languages with few morphosyntactic reflexes of the mass/count distinction will likewise have few object mass nouns-e.g. Greek, Hungarian, and Japanese.

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“…Compare the ambiguity of haksayng in (15) and the rigid interpretations of the NPs in (18) (cf. Song 1975, Nemoto 2005, Kwak 2010 Finally, the use of a classifier is available for all nouns regardless of their grammatical or semantic features in Korean. However, it is obligatory for mass nouns.…”

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Typological Accounts for Nominal Forms

Kwak¹

2012

J. Univers. Lang.

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Various linguistic phenomena may serve a basis for the classification of languages and nominal forms make part of the criteria for the classification. In this study, two major approaches are closely compared for language typology based on nominal forms. Chierchia (1998a, b) assumes that morpho-syntactic features should be crucial in determining the denotations and grammatical categories of NPs. He suggests three classificatory categories with the notion of nominal mapping parameters. Contrastingly, the OT analysis of de Swart & Zwarts (2009 do not assume that morpho-syntactic features should be collapsed with countability and plurality. They propose several general constraints governing nominal forms and argue that different ordering of the constraints in optimality accounts for different nominal forms crosslinguistically. I have shown that the OT Eun-Joo Kwak Department of English Language and Literature, Sejong University 98 Gunja-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 143-747, Korea Phone: +82-2-3408-3633; Email: ejkwak@sejong.ac.kr Received September 8, 2011; Revised October 30, 2011; Accepted November 17, 2011. 102 Typological Accounts for Nominal Forms analysis provides an appropriate framework to categorize languages systematically.

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On Mass Denotations of Bare Nouns in Japanese and Korean

Cited by 24 publications

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The Role of L1 Transfer in the Interpretation of Articles with Definite Plurals in L2 English

The Role of L1 Transfer in the Interpretation of Articles with Definite Plurals in L2 English

Predicting object mass nouns across languages

Typological Accounts for Nominal Forms

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