Number Marking and (in)Definiteness in Kind Terms

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Mass nouns, vagueness and semantic variation (2010, background): “The converse does not hold: there are plenty of bare argument languages (lacking articles altogether) that are not generalized classifier languages (e.g., Russian, Hindi, etc.; see on this Dayal (2004)).”
Definiteness and determinacy (2015, background): “Dayal (2004) then argues for a ranking principle on which ∪ and iota are both ranked above ex, justified on the grounds that the former two do not introduce quantificational force.”
The Semantic Contributions of Wh-words and Type Shifts: Evidence from Free Relatives Crosslinguistically (2004, background): “Partee ( 1987), Chierchia ( 1998), and Dayal (2004) have argued that another type shifter is available in the grammar, called existential closure (3), that applies to a set-denoting expression and existentially closes it (30» .”
Coordinated Bare Definites (2003, background): “13Various analyses of the exact licensing conditions in English, French, Italian, can be found in the literature (in Chierchia 1998a, Dayal 2000, the lack of the whole DP layer; in Longobardi 1994, the raising of N or of its features to the empty D at LF, ecc.).”