32.2461, Books: Countability in Natural Language: Filip (ed.)

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Subject: 32.2461, Books: Countability in Natural Language: Filip (ed.)

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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 19:40:28
From: Eleanor Hennerley [ehennerley at cambridge.org]
Subject: Countability in Natural Language: Filip (ed.)

 


Title: Countability in Natural Language 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/semantics-and-pragmatics/countability-natural-language?format=HB 


Editor: Hana Filip

Hardback: ISBN:  9781107178663 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107178663 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107178663 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.20


Abstract:

This book focuses on current theoretical and empirical research into
countability in the nominal domain, and to a lesser extent in the verbal
domain. The presented state-of-the-art studies are situated within
compositional semantics combined with the theory of mereology, and draw on a
wealth of data, some of which have hitherto been unknown, from a number of
typologically distinct languages. Some contributions propose enrichments of
classical extensional mereology with topological and temporal notions as well
as with type theory and probabilistic models. The book also presents analyses
that rely on cutting-edge empirical research (experimental, corpus-based) into
meaning in language. It is suitable as a point of departure for original
research or material for seminars in semantics, philosophy of language,
psycholinguistics and other fields of cognitive science. It is of interest not
only to a semanticist, but also to anybody who wishes to gain insights into
the contemporary research into countability.
 



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 Dočekal; 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.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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