Parts of a Whole - Distributivity As a Bridge Between Aspect and Measurement

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. Lucas Champollion offers a theory that unifies the concepts of aspect, plural and mass reference, measurement, and distributivity, to account for these gaps.

List of contents

• 1: Overview


• 2: The stage


• 3: The cast of characters


• 4: The theory


• 5: Minimal parts


• 6: Aspect and space


• 7: Measure functions


• 8: Covert distributivity


• 9: Overt distributivity


• 10: Collectivity and cumulativity


• 11: Conclusion

About the author

Lucas Champollion is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at New York University. He holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics (2010) and a M.Sc. in Computer and Information Science (2007), both from the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining New York University in 2012, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in Germany. His work has appeared in journals such as Theoretical Linguistics, Linguistics and Philosophy, Jounral of Semantics and Semantics and Pragmatics.

Summary

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. Lucas Champollion offers a theory that unifies the concepts of aspect, plural and mass reference, measurement, and distributivity, to account for these gaps.

Product details

• Authors: Lucas Champollion, Lucas (Assistant Professor Champollion, Champollion Lucas
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2017
• EAN: 9780198755128
• ISBN: 978-0-19-875512-8
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Theoretical
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics & pragmatics