Countability in Natural Language

Herausgeber: Filip, Hana

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together an international group of scholars and based on data from a number of typologically-distinct languages, this volume represents the state-of-the-art in theoretical and empirical research into countability. It will appeal to a wide audience of advanced students and specialists in formal semantics and pragmatics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781316630983
• ISBN-10: 1316630986
• Artikelnr.: 72877408

Inhaltsangabe

1. Proportional Many/Much and Most Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, and Ion Giurgea
2 . Quantity Systems and the Count/Mass Distinction Jenny Doetjes
3. Counting Aggregates, Groups and Kinds: Countability from the Perspective of a Morphologically Complex Language Scott Grimm, and Mojmír Döekal
4. Individuating Matter over Time Manfred Krifka
5. Reduplication as Summation Charles Lam
6. Iceberg Semantics for Count Nouns and Mass Nouns: How Mass Counts Fred Landman
7. Indexical Inference: Counting and Measuring in Context Alice G.B. ter Meulen
8. Counting and Measuring and Approximation Susan Rothstein
9. The Count/Mass Distinction for Granular Nouns Peter R. Sutton, and Hana Filip
Index.