Countability in Natural Language

Bringing together an international group of researchers, this innovative volume presents the state-of-the-art in research into countability.

List of contents

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 Döekal; 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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Hana (Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf Filip
• Assisted by: Hana Filip (Editor), Filip Hana (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781107178663
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17866-3
• No. of pages: 314
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc