Mass Nouns and Plurals

In Klaus von Heusinger, Claudia Maienborn & Paul Portner, Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 2 (2011)
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Survey of issues pertaining to the semantics of mass and plural nouns.

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