28.2385, Books: Semantics for Counting and Measuring: Rothstein

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Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 12:16:30
From: Jack Groutage [jgroutage at cambridge.org]
Subject: Semantics for Counting and Measuring: Rothstein

 


Title: Semantics for Counting and Measuring 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	
Author: Susan Rothstein

Hardback: ISBN:  9781107001275 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107001275 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 69.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107001275 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 85.39


Abstract:

The use of numerals in counting differs quite dramatically across languages.
Some languages grammaticalise a contrast between count nouns (three cats;
three books) vs 'non-count' or mass nouns (milk, mud), marking this
distinction in different ways. Others use a system of numeral classifiers,
while yet others use a combination of both. This book draws attention to the
contrast between counting and measuring, and shows that it is central to our
understanding of how we use numerical expressions, classifiers and count nouns
in different languages. It reviews some of the more recent major linguistic
results in the semantics of numericals, counting and measuring and theories of
the mass/count distinction, and presents the author's new research on the
topic. The book draws heavily on crosslinguistic research, and presents
in-depth case studies of the mass/count distinction and counting and measuring
in a number of typologically unrelated languages. It also includes chapters on
classifiers, constructions and on adjectival uses of measure phrases.
 



List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Numericals and how they work; 3.
Counting and measuring; 4. The mass count distinction; 5. Object mass nouns,
measuring and counting; 6. A crosslinguistic perspective; 7. The universal
grinder; 8. Classifiers; 9. Measures; 10. Additive and attributive uses of
measures; 11. In conclusion; ENVOI; References.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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