Mass/Count Variation: A Mereological, Two-Dimensional Semantics
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Mass/Count Variation: A Mereological, Two-Dimensional Semantics
We argue that two types of context are central to grounding the semantics for the mass/count distinction. We combine and develop the accounts of Rothstein (2010) and Landman (2011), which emphasize (non-)overlap at a context. We also adopt some parts of Chierchia’s (2010) account which uses precisifying contexts. We unite these strands in a two-dimensional semantics that covers a wide range of ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1944-3676
DOI: 10.4148/1944-3676.1110