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.
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.
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Bringing together an international group of researchers, this innovative volume presents the state-of-the-art in 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 Mojmķr Doekal;
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.
Hana Filip is Professor of Semantics at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf (Germany). Her research focuses on aspect, genericity, and nominal semantics.
