Here are some papers concerning various aspects of mass terms. This list is intended to give you some options about papers to write your second summary about, and also to give you some ideas for your presentations and final papers.

Alexiadou, Artemis (2007) "On Argument Supporting Nominals and the Mass vs. Count Distinction". Paper presented at Syntactic Variation and Interfaces meeting.

Bloom, Paul; Wynn, Karen (1997) "Linguistic Cues in the Acquisition of Number Words" Journal of Child Language v. 24, pp. 511-533.

Bunt, Harry "Mass Expressions" In Keith Brown (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 5757-5760.

Chierchia, Gennaro (1998) "Reference to Kinds Across Languages" Natural Language Semantics v. 6, pp. 339-505.

Doetjes, Jenny (1997) Quantifiers and Selection (Chapter 2 is "Mass and Count Properties of Nouns and Verbs"). PhD dissertation, University of Leiden, Netherlands.

Gillon, Brendan (1992) "Towards a Common Semantics for English Count and Mass Nouns" Linguistics and Philosophy v. 15, pp. 597-640.

Gillon, Brendan; Keyayia, Eva; Taler, Vanessa (1999) "The Mass-Count Distinction: evidence from Psycholinguistic Performance" Brain and Language v. 67, pp. 205-211.

Massam, Diane (2007) "Counting, Classifiers, and Number in Niuean: Classifiers that don't Classify and Plural Markers that are Singular". Paper read at workshop on "Parts and Quantities", UBC, Nov. 2007. (This is an extended handout; this is a short abstract)

Mathieu, Eric (2007) "On the Count/Mass Distinction and the role of Number in Objibwe" Paper read at workshop on "Parts and Quantities", UBC, Nov. 2007.

Millikan, Ruth (1998) "A Common Structure for Concepts of Individuals, Stuffs, and Real Kinds: More Mama, more milk, and more mouse. Behavioral and Brain Sciences v. 21, pp. 55-100. This is a "target article" by Millikan together with a set of responses by a bunch of other people, together with her reply to them all. It is very "philosophical" in nature.

Nemoto, Naoko (2005) "On Mass Denotations of Bare Nouns in Japanese and Korean" Linguistics v. 43, pp. 383-413.

Nicolas, David (2008) "Do Mass Nouns Constitute a Uniform Class" Kansas working Papers in Linguistics.

Nicolas, David (forthcoming) "Mass Nouns and Non-Singular Logic" in Linguistics and Philosophy.

Rothstein, Susan (2007) "Counting and the Mass-Count Distinction" unpublished manuscript.

Semenza, Carlo; Modini, Sara; Cappelletti, Marinella (1997) "The Grammatical Properties of Mass Nouns: An Aphasia Case Study" Neuropsychologia vol. 35 no. 5, pp. 669-675.

Steinhauer, Karsten; Pancheva, Roumyana; Newman, Aaron; Gennari, Silvia; Ullman, Michael (2001) "How the Mass Counts: An Electrophysiological Approach to the Processing of Lexical Features" NeuroReport vol.12 No.5, pp. 999-1005.

Wilhelm, Andrea (2006) "Count and Mass Nouns in DÎne SulinÈ" Proceedings of the 25^th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, pp. 435-443.

Wilhelm, Andrea (2006) "Count, Mass, and Part Structure of DÎne SulinÈ Nouns" Proceedings of the 11^th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas.

Wiltschko, Martina (2007) "On the Absence of a Grammaticized Count/Mass Distinction in Halkomelem Salish" Paper read at workshop on "Parts and Quantities", UBC, Nov. 2007. Paper and handout.

Wisniewski, Edward (forthcoming 2008) "On Using Count Nouns, Mass Nouns, and Pluralia Tantum: What Counts? " in F.J. Pelletier (ed) Kinds, Things, and Stuff (Oxford UP). Here are figures for this paper.

Xu, Fei (forthcoming 2008) "Count Nouns, Sortal Concepts, and the Nature of Early Words" in F.J. Pelletier (ed) Kinds, Things, and Stuff (Oxford UP). Here are figures for this paper.

Zamparelli, Roberto (2008 forthcoming) "Dei Ex Machina: A Note on Plural/Mass Indefinite Determiners" Studia Linguistica.