The grammatical properties of mass nouns: An aphasia case study

Abstract*A patient "F[A[# is described who\ as a consequence of brain damage\ shows an isolated de_cit concerning the use\ across a series of tasks\ of the grammatical properties of mass:non!countable nouns[ Her use of grammar is otherwise perfect[ This behaviour dissociates from that of other patients who have severe grammatical di.culties\ but do not show any impairment in the mass nouns tasks that F[A[ fails[ This case is thought to demonstrate how speci_c grammatical rules\ that are said to be stored at the lemma level of lexical retrieval\ are indeed independently represented and accessible[