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== Further reading == * Laycock, Henry (2005). "[http://post.queensu.ca/%7Elaycockh/Mass%20nouns%20%20Count%20nouns%20%20Non-count%20nouns.pdf Mass nouns, Count nouns and Non-count nouns]", Draft version of entry in ''Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics'' Oxford: Elsevier. For definitions of nouns based on the concept of "identity criteria": * Geach, Peter. 1962. ''Reference and Generality.'' Cornell University Press. For more on identity criteria: * Gupta, Anil. 1980, ''The logic of common nouns.'' New Haven and London: Yale University Press. For the concept that nouns are "prototypically referential": * Croft, William. 1993. "A noun is a noun is a noun β or is it? Some reflections on the universality of semantics". Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, ed. Joshua S. Guenter, Barbara A. Kaiser, and Cheryl C. Zoll, 369β80. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society. For an attempt to relate the concepts of identity criteria and prototypical referentiality: * Baker, Mark. 2003, Lexical Categories: verbs, nouns, and adjectives. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
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