28.2443, Books: Parts of a Whole: Champollion

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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 14:32:25
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: Parts of a Whole: Champollion

 


Title: Parts of a Whole 
Subtitle: Distributivity as a Bridge between Aspect and Measurement 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/parts-of-a-whole-9780198755135 


Author: Lucas Champollion

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198755128 Pages: 352 Price: U.S. $ 105.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780198755135 Pages: 352 Price: U.S. $ 55.00


Abstract:

This book uses mathematical models of language to explain why there are
certain gaps in language: things that we might expect to be able to say but
can't. For instance, why can we say I ran for five minutes but not *I ran all
the way to the store for five minutes? Why is five pounds of books acceptable,
but *five pounds of book not acceptable? What prevents us from saying *sixty
degrees of water to express the temperature of the water in a swimming pool
when sixty inches of water can express its depth? And why can we not say *all
the ants in my kitchen are numerous? The constraints on these constructions
involve concepts that are generally studied separately: aspect, plural and
mass reference, measurement, and distributivity. In this book, Lucas
Champollion provides a unified perspective on these domains, connects them
formally within the framework of algebraic semantics and mereology, and uses
this connection to transfer insights across unrelated bodies of literature and
formulate a single constraint that explains each of the judgments above.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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