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SUMMARY:Count nouns and the semantics of counting - Professor Susan Rothst
 ein\, Bar Ilan University
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DESCRIPTION:This paper argues that more information is necessary for count
 ing than is necessary for individuation.  We distinguish between natural a
 toms which are individuals which come with apparently built in-criteria fo
 r what counts as 1 and semantic atoms  where the information about what co
 unts as 1 is specified explicitly as part of the meaning.   Not all natura
 l atoms are semantic atoms and not all semantic atoms are natural atoms.  
 Count nouns denote sets of semantic atoms. Mass nouns may or may not denot
 e sets of natural atoms\, but never denote sets of semantic atoms.  The co
 nclusion is that  while individuation is part of our non-linguistic concep
 tual apparatus\, counting is a grammatical/linguistic process.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit\, Chaucer
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