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Parts and Wholes in Semantics Friederike Moltmann (Senior Researcher, Senior Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Parts and Wholes in Semantics By Friederike Moltmann (Senior Researcher, Senior Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Summary

Moltmann presents a range of empirical generalizations with data from English and other languages involving plurals, mass nouns, adnominal and adverbial modifiers, nominal and adverbial quantifiers, and expressions of completion.

Parts and Wholes in Semantics Summary

Parts and Wholes in Semantics by Friederike Moltmann (Senior Researcher, Senior Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

This book develops a unified account of expressions involving the notions of part and whole in which principles of the individuation of part structures play a central role. Moltmann presents a range of new empirical generalizations with data from English and a variety of other languages involving plurals, mass nouns, adnominal and adverbial modifiers such as as a whole, together, and alone, nominal and adverbial quantifiers ranging over parts, and expressions of completion such as completely and partly. She develops a new theory of part structures which differs from traditional mereological theories in that the notion of an integrated whole plays a central role and in that the part structure of an entity is allowed to vary across different situations, perspectives, and dimensions.

Parts and Wholes in Semantics Reviews

This book is a very interesting one. It presents new and promising views of the count/plural/mass distinction, supporting them through extensive discussions of many phenomena. The basic idea - in singling out special entities which play a major role in accounting for count- and plural-like behaviour, according to contextually controllable integrity conditions - is challenging and with far-reaching consequences. Moreover, the breadth of coverage, and the attempts at discussing crosslinguistic and comparative evidence are worth particular notice. * Fabio Pianesi, Linguistics and Philosophy *

About Friederike Moltmann (Senior Researcher, Senior Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Friederike Moltmann is senior researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. She had previously taught both linguistics and philosophy at various universities in the US and the UK. She has published numerous articles in both linguistic and philosophical journals.

Table of Contents

I. Introduction ; II. The Formal Semantic Framework and the Treatment of Distributivity ; III. Semantic Selection, Part Structures, and Perspectives ; IV. Part Structures and Quantification ; V. Metrical and Other Lexical Specifications of Part Structures ; VI. Dimensions of Parts and Wholes and the Part Structure of Events ; VII. The Mass-Count Distinction for Verbs and Adverbial Quantification over Events ; VIII. Concluding Remark about Part Structures and Natural Language

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NLS9780195154931
9780195154931
B007YXOEU8
Parts and Wholes in Semantics by Friederike Moltmann (Senior Researcher, Senior Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
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Oxford University Press Inc
2003-02-13
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