Thought-provoking Stanford talk yesterday: “What Can Be Ground? Noun Type, Constructions, and the Universal Grinder” by Alex Djalali, Scott Grimm, David Clausen, and Beth Levin (all of Stanford). Abstract (for the upcoming Berkeley Linguistics Society meetings): The thought experiment known as the “Universal Grinder”, whereby count nouns within particular morphosyntactic contexts surface as mass expressions (e.g. There … Continue reading C/M