Parts and Wholes in Semantics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 6 November 1997
- ISBN 9780195095746
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 234x160x20 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Moltmann provides a unified account of a broad range of English and cross linguistic data involving expressions of the notions of "part" and "whole". She presents a new theory of part structures in which the notion of an integrated whole plays a fundamental role, and in which the part structure of an entity may vary across different situations, perspectives, and dimensions.
MoreLong description:
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.
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Formal Semantic Framework and the Treatment of Distributivity
Semantic Selection, Part Structures, and Perspectives
Part Structures and Quantification
Metrical and Other Lexical Specifications of Part Structures
Dimensions of Parts and Wholes and the Part Structure of Events
The Mass-Count Distinction for Verbs and Adverbial Quantification over Events
Concluding Remark about Part Structures and Natural Language
