The article deals with two of the long-standing problems in English linguistics: whether it is possible that each noun can have both count and mass senses, and the problem of determining a complete list of the regularities of count-to-mass and mass-to-count changes. While there have been numerous attempts to solve each of these problems, this article shows the results of applying Cognitive Grammar to them.The analysis covers a set of concrete nouns representative of English – sixty nouns with different ontological properties and all frequencies of occurrence. These are nouns that are classified by dictionaries as solely count and solely mass. Because of its usage-based character, the analysis scrutinises over 1,700 real-life utterances produced by native speakers of English. The analysis shows that even such nouns possess senses whose properties are the reverse of the properties of the nouns’ basic senses. A thorough examination of the nouns’ basic and extended senses leads to certain grammatical regularities of count-to-mass and mass-to-count changes. The analysis not only systematises the grammatical regularities determined so far and solves many problems that can be noticed about them, but also proposes novel regularities.

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对英语计数和大众名词的新见解——认知语法视角

这篇文章讨论了英语语言学中两个长期存在的问题：每个名词是否有可能同时具有计数和质量意义，以及确定计数到质量和质量规则的完整列表的问题。计数变化。虽然已经有很多尝试来解决这些问题，但本文展示了将认知语法应用于这些问题的结果。分析涵盖了一组代表英语的具体名词——六十个具有不同本体属性和所有出现频率的名词。这些是被字典分类为仅可数和仅质量的名词。由于其基于用法的特征，该分析仔细检查了以英语为母语的人所产生的 1,700 多种现实生活中的话语。分析表明，即使是这样的名词也具有与名词基本意义相反的意义。对名词的基本意义和扩展意义的彻底检查会导致计数到质量和质量到计数变化的某些语法规律。分析不仅系统化了迄今为止确定的语法规律，解决了许多值得关注的问题，而且提出了新的规律。