Mass Terms and Model-theoretic Semantics

Klappentext Harry Bunt provides a thorough analysis of the problem of 'mass terms' and offers an original and detailed solution. Zusammenfassung Harry Bunt provides a thorough analysis of the problem of 'mass terms' and offers an original and detailed solution. This significant advance in our understanding of the formal syntactic and semantic properties of mass terms will be of interest not only to linguists and logicians! but also to all those concerned with the processing of natural language. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Model-Theoretic Semantics of Mass Terms: 1. Introduction; 2. Mass terms; 3. Approaches to mass term semantics; 4. Towards a semantic theory of mass nouns; 5. Ensemble theory; 6. Semantic representations based on ensemble theory; 7. Two-level model-theoretic semantics; 8. Quantification and mass nouns; 9. Modification and mass nouns; Part II. Ensemble Theory: 10. Axiomatic ensemble theory; 11. Continuous, discrete and mixed ensembles; 12. A model for ensemble theory; 13. Ensemble theory, set theory and mereology; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Harry C Bunt, Harry C. Bunt
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521105910
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10591-0
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 228 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics