Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems

I. MASS TERMS, COUNT TERMS, AND SORTAL TERMS Central examples of mass terms are easy to come by. ''Water'', ''smoke'', ''gold'', etc. , differ in their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties from count terms such as ''man'', ''star'', ''wastebasket'', etc. Syntactically, it seems, mass terms do, but singular count terms do not, admit the quantifier phrases ''much'', ''an amount of'', ''a li...