Parts and Wholes in Semantics - Couverture souple

Moltmann, Friederike

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195154932 ISBN 13 : 9780195154931

Editeur : Oxford University Press USA, 1997

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

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)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press USA
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0195154932
• ISBN 13: 9780195154931
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272